Family traditions help provide to each family member a home, environment, and relationships of purpose in a world of confusion, disorganization, and decreasing morals and values. Traditions provide families the desired foundation of comfort, familiarity, and consistency, which certainly helps ensure that family disunity, dysfunction, and eventual separation does not occur. And yet, the most effective family traditions are not those that only occur annually on certain holidays – they are made evident in daily and weekly habits and actions that are simple, yet significant.
No, these traditions are not about large meals, big events, fancy decorations, or annual celebrations – these are the very traditions that help define who we are, determine our personal and family happiness, and even the eventual outcome of our children. As you will see below, there are 15 family traditions listed (the remaining 15 are contained in part 2 of the Family Traditions article series), and there certainly could be hundreds more listed. These 30 listed, however, are traditions that make a difference because they require effort, creativity, consistency, and most importantly – the ability to make time for the most important relationships in life – our family!
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