What are your fun family traditions? Here are examples of what some families report:
- Family game night
- Reunion with extended family
- Religious holidays; add service to deepen meaning
- National holidays: add meaning like hanging “Blessing Leaves” on Thanksgiving “Thankful Tree”
- Picnic celebrating summer
- Birthday dinners / breakfasts
- Sunday dinner with relatives
- Friendship day: invite neighbors
- Independence Day; make a collage of gifts freedom provides
- Father-son outing
- Daddy-daughter date
- Monthly lunch date with Mom
- Saturday special breakfast
- Memorial Day: celebrate your heritage by learning of ancestors
- Celebrate Grandparents Day with service, a meal or coupon to a restaurant
- Celebrate Mother’s/ Father’s Day with “service” coupons
- Write love notes of things you like about each other on Valentine’s Day
- Celebrate wedding anniversary by doing your own “circle of love”
- Hold a monthly “Values” night and serve treats
Below, write the traditions you already enjoy and ask yourself “Do they reinforce our family values?” If not, how can you make them more meaningful? If you would like to create a new family tradition, what events would you like to celebrate? Write down your ideas. You might want to add ways to make good health part of your on-going holiday traditions by including physical activity, healthy foods, and new healthy ways to fix traditional foods.
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