Comments on: Family Traditions: 10 Ideas To Get You Started

By: 5 Ways to Build Healthy Family Relationships – Ruth L. Snyder « The Early Years

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:07:06 +0000

[...] Create Family Traditions: Special occasions like Valentine’s Day, Christmas, birthdays, and anniversaries provide opportunities for families to spend time together and share memories. Special meals, activities, and shared experiences will help bond your family together. Each family has unique ways of celebrating. As a couple, discuss family celebrations you enjoyed while you were growing up. Perhaps you want to keep some traditions from your growing up years and add your own. Here are some ideas to get you started. [...]

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:48:49 +0000

Hi,
I’m doing a story for the Chicago Tribune and other U.S. papers about do-it-yourself holidays – little family traditions that perhaps started modestly enough but have become almost sacred annual (or more frequent) causes for celebration. I love some of the ideas I have seen on this site, including family olympics, an annual art show, Thanksgiving stocking and Thanksgiving drive-in night among many others. Would any of you be willing to email me with more details of ones your family has for my story? My name is Wendy and my email is wdonahue@tribune.com. Thank you so much.

By: Creating Family Traditions: Wendy Lawton’s Top 10 List : KiDOinfo: parents and kids, providence and beyond

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:02:10 +0000

[...] If you’re still stumped by now, cadge someone else’s tradition. Number Six on this Simple Mom’s list kinda [...]

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:17:24 +0000

So fun to read everyone’s family favorite traditions. Our family is raised and out of the house, but some of our family Christmas traditions which have been passed on include; having a basket of children’s Christmas books which only comes out after Thanksgiving – reading at least one story each evening, letting each child pick and purchase an ornament which represents something they did or someplace they visited that year – we call it our memory tree which they keep in their own special box and put on the tree each year (those are taken with them when they marry to start their own memory tree), our famous family “hot punch” on Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve breakfast at our favorite restaurant, and so many more…..

By: How to Make a New Holiday Tradition | Our Mommyhood

How to Make a New Holiday Tradition | Our Mommyhood — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:19:22 +0000

[...] traditions doesn’t have to be difficult, expensive or time consuming. If you can’t afford the [...]

By: Cherise

Cherise — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:46:25 +0000

I love all the ideas on this page. One thing that my family does evey Christmas is a home made Christmas Movie. We try to take all the good and bad memories of the year and reenact them in a funny light hearted way. Everyone one in the family is involved from Grandman and Grandpa to the youngest member. We watch the movie right before we open our gifts. It’s the best way to start the night out.

By: The Primary Error of Early English Education | Front Porch Republic

The Primary Error of Early English Education | Front Porch Republic — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:50:16 +0000

[...] Traditions: 10 Ideas to Get You Started, blogpost by Sherri. http://simplemom.net/family-traditions-10-ideas-to-get-you-started/, accessed 15 June [...]

By: how to enlarge

how to enlarge — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:35:38 +0000

Great, great stuff, thanks! You made the front page at delicious — well deserved. I’m saving this piece to reread down the road. Keep up the wonderful work!

By: Creating New Family Traditions | Truth In America

Creating New Family Traditions | Truth In America — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:51:20 +0000

[...] Be sure that both of you are paying attention to each other. This is the time when the idea of new traditions may actually come to fruition. Discuss any concerns that you may have with these ideas completely [...]

By: Mae

Mae — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:33:57 +0000

Our favorite tradition is that the day after Thanksgiving, each of our 3 kids chooses a new Christmas song to learn to play on the piano. Until Christmas eve, our piano teacher and I help them practice that particular song and only that song. Then on Christmas eve we have a “Family Recital” and invite some relitives that live nearby over to listen. Afterwords we pull out previous years songs and see what they remember!