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Wednesday:Mid Week Ramlings—Importance of Traditions
What is one of the single things you as a parent can do that will provide your child with a sense of belonging, connectedness, security, stability, pride in their heritage and family?
Family Traditions
Creating them now and faithfully repeating them throughout your children’s lives
will supply you with many great family memories.
Growing up every Saturday we worked together as a family in the morning and then had a family meeting where we “voted” for what we were going to do in the afternoon for fun as a family. Boating every Saturday during the summers, was a great family tradition. On Valentines Day, when we arrived home from school my mother had a present for each of us to make us feel loved. Saturday mornings, my siblings and I would cook breakfast to bring Mom and Dad in bed.
My husband had family traditions revolving around the holidays. Making special food for Christmas Eve and St. Patricks Day is something they still do to this day.
In my family we are creating our own family traditions, bringing some along from our families, but also creating our own. For Valentines Day we send the kids on a scavenger hunt around the house and at the end they get their special treat. For Halloween we go to the pumpkin patch and come home and decorate it. Every night we read books and sing them their own lullabies. For my oldest daughter;s birthday we have made it the tradition to visit the zoo.
It is also fun to look ahead and look forward to the traditions we can start later in their lives. I would love to take my girls to the American Girl Store in NYC (thank you for the idea John and Kate plus 8!)
Your Family Traditions can be something as simple as having Saturday Morning be cuddle time in Mom and Dad’s bed or going to the water park every July in the summer.
What Family Traditions would you like to start? What do you already do?
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My husband takes each of my kids out on their own special outing. He opens the car door for them and sometimes knocks on the door to get them. He plans something he knows they will really like. Dinosaur museum for my son, painting at a pottery place for my daughter
I was just going to say we do a similiar thing but we hire a babysitter so we both can take one kid out at a time. it makes them feel really special
I just read one that I’m excited to try. When you are teaching your kids letters, you pick a letter a week and do activities related to that letter. Like on A Week, you can go to an aquarium and eat apples. My mom also had us read books during the summers for points. Then, we could “cash in” those points at the end of the summer for rides at our beach boardwalk. That’s one of my favorite memories and I’m planning on doing it when my daughter is old enough.