| Each family, big or small, loud or quiet, has its own | | | | spending those precious moments with your |
| traditions that are followed more or less | | | | parents or with your children, will lead you to |
| unchanged for a long period of time. Keeping | | | | cherish the instances you had a chance to speak |
| these family traditions alive is not only the | | | | through your actions. |
| responsibility of the parents, but also the | | | | As kids enter college, or even graduate school, |
| grandparents, the uncles and aunts, the family | | | | traditions fall apart. Some deny this fact by |
| friends and in most cases, the responsibility of | | | | supporting that exactly because children spend |
| children. Whether you consider a family tradition | | | | less time with their folks they feel the need to do |
| to be the annual family vacations to that special | | | | so and use those family traditions as an excuse |
| place you visit every year, the Thanksgiving | | | | to visit the house they grew up in. Whichever the |
| dinner or Christmas presents and birthday parties, | | | | case may be, the fact remains that families need |
| the fact remains that families come closer and | | | | those times together and family bonds do |
| share the memories of past rituals performed to | | | | develop. Although in many cases these are |
| honor everyone. | | | | greatly different from the past, bonds exist |
| When children are still young, so too are parents, | | | | because of the family traditions still exist. |
| family traditions seem to be more sentimental | | | | Thus, it is imperative for a family to find the right |
| and involve a lot of playing around. As kids get | | | | time in order to celebrate the fact that family is |
| older and parents as well, families try to keep | | | | what you love most in the world. As a kid your |
| their traditions alive by reaching mutual | | | | family was the world you knew. As an adult, your |
| agreements among the family members. The son | | | | family is the world you feel safe in. Cherish and |
| that wants to go to a football match and escape | | | | keep these family traditions alive by doing what |
| the tradition of having to sit down, like every | | | | you used to do as a kid. Remember and if you |
| other Sunday, with his whole ten-member family | | | | are given the chance help your mother bake |
| for dinner, can cause some trouble when allowed | | | | cookies, rap presents and put them under the |
| not to be present often. Keeping the tradition is | | | | Christmas tree, set up the Thanksgiving dinner, |
| thus not only the responsibility of the parents in a | | | | buy the cake your brother or sister will blow the |
| family, as people seem to believe, but also that of | | | | birthday candles on. Do whatever it takes. These |
| children who will at some point create their own | | | | are some of the most precious moments you |
| traditions and strive to keep them alive in their | | | | can share with your beloved ones. Do not forget |
| own families. Understanding the importance of | | | | or let them vanish. |