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Creating Family Traditions: Building Lasting Love and Values

Creating Family Traditions reminds us that “Families that play together stay together,” and they build traditions that bind them in love for lifetimes and generations! This book is a treasure chest of activities and family projects that can make any occasion memorable. It has fun, realistic ideas everyone will enjoy. It shows how to provide children with good family routines and how to give each family member purpose, dignity and responsibility within the family structure. The emphasis of these innovative ideas is on creating traditions that build love and bring family members closer. Your family will love the rich, memorable traditions that will develop from activities like the surprise supper, telling small children bedtime stories about themselves, taking Sunday one-on-one walks with each child, organizing “angel for a day” service projects, being secret helpers, making a genealogical family tree, writing letters to the new baby, making New Year’s family predictions, having a Chinese New Year all-night family party, creating spatter Valentines, concocting July 4th firecracker cakes, having Thanksgiving turkey talks, playing Christmas pixies, and dozens more creative ideas and suggestions!

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by Jeanne Yawney

Topics: Families, Traditions, Projects, Service, Activities, Preserving Memories, Sharing, Christmas, Secret Helpers, Genealogy, Bedtime Stories, New Year, Love

Creating Family Traditions reminds us that “Families that play together stay together,” and they build traditions that bind them in love for lifetimes and generations! This book is a treasure chest of activities and family projects that can make any occasion memorable. Whether you’re looking for unique ways to celebrate Halloween, pleasant ways to get wide-awake children ready for bedtime, or different ways to let other members of your family know you love them, it has fun, realistic ideas everyone will enjoy.

Creating Family Traditions is conveniently organized in nineteen sections for easy reference. It shows how to provide children with good family routines and how to give each family member purpose, dignity and responsibility within the family structure. The emphasis of these innovative ideas is on creating traditions that build love and bring family members closer. There’s also a wealth of ideas here on sharing family love with others in both secret and not-so-secret service projects that could become contagious traditions in your community.

Your family will love the rich, memorable traditions that will develop from activities like the surprise supper, telling small children bedtime stories about themselves, taking Sunday one-on-one walks with each child, organizing “angel for a day” service projects, being secret helpers, making a genealogical family tree, writing letters to the new baby, making New Year’s family predictions, having a Chinese New Year all-night family party, creating spatter Valentines, concocting July 4th firecracker cakes, having Thanksgiving turkey talks, playing Christmas pixies, and dozens more creative ideas and suggestions!

Chapters include:

  1. Family Bonding
  2. Mealtime Traditions
  3. Bedtime Traditions
  4. Enjoying the Sabbath
  5. Giving Family Service
  6. Serving Outside the Home
  7. Linking Generations
  8. Family Media Fun
  9. Preserving Memories
  10. New Year’s Activities
  11. Epiphany (Twelfth Day) Traditions
  12. Chinese New Year
  13. Valentine’s Day
  14. Saint Patrick’s Day
  15. Easter
  16. July Fourth, Independence Day
  17. Halloween
  18. Thanksgiving
  19. Merry Christmas!

6″ x 9″ paperback

108 pages

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