Building Family Traditions: Thanksgiving You can strike up a new family tradition anytime you like, but generally sooner is better because it allows your rituals and traditions to grow up as your family does. When you develop thanksgiving family traditions while your children are young, it gives them something that they can grow up with and pass on to their families someday. For Thanksgiving, you might decide to create family traditions that will bring your entire family together closely. For example, you might all gather together and let every family member create the famed "hand print turkey", … [Read more...]
Building Family Traditions: Birthdays
Building Family Traditions: Birthdays Family traditions are a wonderful thing, because they allow for the establishment of rituals and practices that can grow up with your family. Any holiday or special event that is important to your family could potentially be the foundation for building family traditions. For example, the birthdays of your children can present an opportunity for you to create traditions and rituals, and then you can repeat those processes every birthday in order to cement their values. For example, one tradition could be to give each of the non-birthday children in the … [Read more...]
Building Family Traditions: Mother’s and Father’s Day
Building Family Traditions: Mother's and Father's Day You can strike up a new family tradition anytime you like, but generally sooner is better because it allows your rituals and traditions to grow up as your family does. Mother's and father's day are two special occasions that you can celebrate as a family, and this will allow you to build up your own family traditions and family rituals around the holidays so that you can celebrate in much the same way every year. For mother's day, dad and the kids can plan something special for mom. Maybe there will be a morning tradition of breakfast … [Read more...]
Building Family Traditions: Easter
Building Family Traditions: Easter Family traditions can begin any time, but when you start them early on in the development of your family, you give them plenty of time to grow with your family. When your children are young, you can implement family traditions and build a strong understanding of how important ritual and tradition are. Easter, if you believe in it, can be a great special occasion for you to create family traditions. Teach your children about the spirit of Easter by coloring eggs, having an Easter egg hunt, enjoying favorite candies, meeting the Easter bunny and participating … [Read more...]
Holiday Traditions Bond Families
Does your family have holiday traditions? Many families do, though they may or may not think of them as traditions. You may meet for family dinner on Christmas Eve or always share New Years together as a family. These are simple traditions. In other families, traditions are more elaborate, such as the way they celebrate Chanukah or the way that they host birthday parties for family members. It is a good idea for all families to do special things like this together. When it comes to establishing traditions, it is a good idea to meet with everyone within the family and then to make decisions about … [Read more...]
Are Family Traditions at Risk?
Family traditions are those special things that families do and pass down from one generation to the next generation. These traditions can be an amazing gift that one part of the family gives to another. Recently, a study conducted by the University of Toronto points out that many people, and many traditions, are currently at risk. The risk is that people are no longer passing down these traditions and people are suffering as a direct result. Do family traditions really matter? It can be hard to say that they do, but in many ways, it is the connection with older generations that matters most. … [Read more...]