Traditions play a very important role in family life and also in cultures. Traditions strengthen family bonds and will draw family members closer together. They will give you strength and stability. Things may get rough in life, and if tragedy strikes then traditions can help you get through those hard times. It is something to hold on to even if everything seems to be crumbling down. Traditions give individual family members a sense of identity. Traditions can also give family members a place where they belong. As long as the tradition goes on, then that is where individual family members belong. The sense of family can be reinforced when tradition rituals are remembered and continued. This tradition can create a connection between the different generation in a family.
My family and I have many different traditions. One of my favorite traditions is on Christmas Eve all of my extended family gathers together at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house. We bring food and have dinner together. After we have dinner then we do a gift exchange, or other games. It is a ton of fun and the whole family is able to get together and bond over this special time of year. I am so much closer to my extended family because we get together like this. We are able to celebrate our family and the holidays. When I have my own family, I hope that I can continue this tradition, especially when I have grandchildren. I feel that if I continue this tradition it will bring my family closer together.
What traditions do you and your own family have? How does it affect you? I am very interested to learn about your traditions. Please share.
One tradition I miss is when my children were young, until they moved out of the house, we read a Christmas story every night of December together. Reading those stories together really brought us together. We all had our favorite stories. Some made us laugh and some made us cry. Now that I'm an empty nester I read those same stories and remember the days when my children were home with me.
ReplyDeleteTraditions don't always have to be centered around the holidays. Something else we did a lot as a family is at night we would turn the outside lights off so it was really dark and we would lay on the lawn and look at the stars. Sometimes it was really cold and we had to cuddle up in blankets and sleeping bags. But boy was it worth it!
Make traditions with your family and see how special they can be.
Hello Alysha, well this past week in my parenting class we actually discussed this same topic and how having these traditions can help our family have continuity because of these rituals and how they actually make getting through difficult times much easier! Can you think of any experiences you have had where maybe a particular tradition helped you through a trying time?
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Maddison Dillon