Favorite Christmas Traditions

Kristyne McDaniel

One of the things that best survives the years is the memories you cultivate in the minds of your family. A great way to cultivate memories is to reinforce pleasant events with repetition.

It is well known that children love repetition. You can see it when they request the same bed time story, watch the same movie, eat the same favorite foods, and create patterns in the many areas of their young lives. The repitition give them comfort through having something pleasurable that they can repeat when they want to.

Reinforcing holiday traditions is a wonderful way to create anticipation for Christmas Day itself, to help children learn to wait for special events, and to delay gratification on many other fronts.

There are reasons why all societies have traditions that they follow. Please use this resource to help you review different Christmas holiday ideas, and see whether any of them will fit into your life.