Think back to some of your favorite childhood memories.  What do they involve? You got it. Traditions!

Even Hank Williams Jr. felt the need to write a song about them: 

Country music singers have always been a real close family
But lately, some of my kinfolks have disowned a few others and me
I guess it’s because I kind of changed my direction
Lord, I guess I went and broke their family tradition…

Why Family Traditions
Psychologists are saying that study after study is proving that what we remember and enjoy the most about our time in our parents’ home are the traditions. It’s the activities that bring our families together and give us the feeling that everything is right with the world and with our families that shine in our hearts the longest. 

Just think about the stories you hear people tell from childhood, “Every Christmas we would, my cousins and I would always, my dad used to always take us camping to…”  This will be our children someday.  What stories do we want to give them to tell?

After reading these statistics, I made conversation with Chris about it.  We concluded that we didn’t have as many as we would have liked, and we weren’t being consistent on some of the ones we originally planned. 

They need to be your own and feel natural to the family! Children can research and suggest traditions, or a family vote can be done.

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