Family Traditions That Lead to Family Fun and Togetherness

by Laurie Turk on October 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Family traditions can create lasting happy memories for your children. One of my focuses as a mother is to create memories that endure for my family. Most family traditions can be very simple activities that you do on a routine basis.

Simple Family Traditions

Growing up my dad made us shaped pancakes on Saturday morning. Because he took our breakfast one step further and made fun shapes with our food—an everyday task turned into an anticipated tradition.

Celebrate Birthday Traditions

Celebrate a birthday with several fun annual traditions. I love traditions, I think it brings stability into our children’s lives and gives them something to look forward to. I hope these will inspire you to start some new ones.

Celebrate a Birthday with Fun Activities—Birthday cake for breakfast, numbered shirt, and crepe paper doorway are just a few fabulous ideas you can do for your child’s special day.
12 Fun Birthday Activities—Here are 12 fun birthday activities you can do annually for your children on their special day.
You Are Special Red Plate—Basically how the tradition works, is that you use the ‘You are Special’ red plate at meal time when someone accomplishes something, gets a good grades, has a birthday, etc.

I believe the key to starting memorable family traditions are to be consistent, make it easy, and capture the event with pictures so you can relive the moments you made together.

What fun family traditions do you and your family enjoy?

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An active part of the Mom It Forward team, Jyl primarily writes about parenting, social good, and all things travel related. In a past life, Jyl was an award-winning copywriter and designer of corporate training programs for Fortune 100 companies. Offline, Jyl is married to @TroyPattee; a mom to two teen boys and a beagle named #Hashtag; loves large amounts of cheese, dancing, and traveling; and lives in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Topping her bucket list is the goal to visit 50 countries by the time she's 50.