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: Christmas
Building Family Traditions: Christmas Christmas traditions can be really beneficial for a family, bringing its members together and allowing them to engage in ritual during the process. The sooner that you develop your Christmas traditions in your family and give present to children using your prepaid card, the sooner you will be able to pass them to your children and to allow your children to grow up with them. One really excellent family tradition that you can begin for Christmas is to hand make ornaments with your family. Sit down before Christmas every year and let each family member … [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...]
Overcoming Generation Gaps in a Family
In today's modern society, the way we live and the things we do are different from what many older generations had and did. This does not make any one generation more difficult or better than another. Yet, these differences in the generations can cause a number of problems and rifts in families when people just cannot seem to get along. Belief systems, even when passed down through the generations, change due to society as well. The requirement for all parties to be accepting of others is too limiting. What can you do? First, consider what the concern is. If there is a factor that concerns health, … [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...]