Fun family traditions

[Anonymous]

Our kids are still pretty young so who knows if this will be something we manage to keep up so they remember but it got me wondering about what are other weekly/monthly traditions you do? Maybe we can share and borrow some. Not talking about yearly apple picking and stuff like that more week to week or monthly.

Ours
Sunday am pancakes w friends: usually our place but if not we head over to friends, kids still in PJs and have a nice morning together.

Saturdays we usually grab bagels on our way to the park

Friday night after dinner we bake

As the kids get older we will probably incorporate a movie night

[Anonymous]

It sounds like all your weekly traditions are food based. Mine are much more verbal/emotionally based.

Every time I reconnect with DD I give her a dramatic hug and say, "I'm so happy to see you!" I have been doing this since she was around 6 and she's now 16.

I make it a point to have her pack groceries, because she's so good at it.

We fold laundry together and talk.

Maybe once or twice a week I will show her a Youtube video I want her to see and she'll show me one she wants me to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like all your weekly traditions are food based. Mine are much more verbal/emotionally based.

Every time I reconnect with DD I give her a dramatic hug and say, "I'm so happy to see you!" I have been doing this since she was around 6 and she's now 16.

I make it a point to have her pack groceries, because she's so good at it.

We fold laundry together and talk.

Maybe once or twice a week I will show her a Youtube video I want her to see and she'll show me one she wants me to see.

I'm not sure you know what a tradition is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like all your weekly traditions are food based. Mine are much more verbal/emotionally based.

Every time I reconnect with DD I give her a dramatic hug and say, "I'm so happy to see you!" I have been doing this since she was around 6 and she's now 16.

I make it a point to have her pack groceries, because she's so good at it.

We fold laundry together and talk.

Maybe once or twice a week I will show her a Youtube video I want her to see and she'll show me one she wants me to see.

OP here YES we love food on our house. Kids eat basically the same thing for breakfast during the week bc it streamlines M-F mornings. So during the weekend we don't care much.

I like your laundry idea. I usually do that while naps are happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like all your weekly traditions are food based. Mine are much more verbal/emotionally based.

Every time I reconnect with DD I give her a dramatic hug and say, "I'm so happy to see you!" I have been doing this since she was around 6 and she's now 16.

I make it a point to have her pack groceries, because she's so good at it.

We fold laundry together and talk.

Maybe once or twice a week I will show her a Youtube video I want her to see and she'll show me one she wants me to see.

I'm not sure you know what a tradition is.

+1 also kind of a snarky response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like all your weekly traditions are food based. Mine are much more verbal/emotionally based.

Every time I reconnect with DD I give her a dramatic hug and say, "I'm so happy to see you!" I have been doing this since she was around 6 and she's now 16.

I make it a point to have her pack groceries, because she's so good at it.

We fold laundry together and talk.

Maybe once or twice a week I will show her a Youtube video I want her to see and she'll show me one she wants me to see.

I'm not sure you know what a tradition is.

+1 also kind of a snarky response.

Not OP. I'm Chinese and food is a huge part of our culture and much of our traditions, family or heritage, is food based and I'm not ashamed of saying it is. It's more about the fact that we as a family our together and enjoying our time rather than what's on the dining table, be it hot pot, dim sum or IHOP.

[Anonymous]

We do pizza Fridays...bake together (although I guess not weekly)...have weekly hikes/bike rides...craft for each holiday/season....watch a kid movie and snuggle in big pile once a weekend

[Anonymous]

Mine are mostly holiday based probably.

The night before the first day of school I give each kid a book

Each kid gets a date with mom doing activity of their choice in their stocking

[Anonymous]

My kids are older elementary, so our weeks are being taken over by sports practices and the weekends by their games. But our more consistent traditions revolve around reading. Every night we still read to them, even if it’s just a few pages from a book it’s taking us forever to get through when we are busy. And when we do have time on the weekends to chill, we have family reading time where we all get our different books and sit on the big couch and read them separately, but together. This works because we got lucky and both our kids love to read, so we all look forward to it.

[Anonymous]

Most of ours are holiday based as well.

We go to my hometown every July 4th and go to the same parade and stand in the same place that I did as a kid. Even if my parents pass away, we will likely still do this.

On Christmas mornings the kids get to come into bed with me while their dad goes downstairs and “checks” to make sure Santa came (really turning the tree and lifts on, getting the camera ready). We use the same advent calendar I had as a kid.

Valentines Day, I always put a little something out for the kids at their place at the breakfast table (this year was crystal growing kits).

Friday night is always pizza night (except now during lent as my husband prefers not to eat pizza without meat, which drives me nuts!).

On Thanksgiving we always watch the Macy’s parade, followed by the kennel club show. The kids know to call me in from the kitchen when Santa is about to arrive (my favorite part of the parade!).

Every night at dinner each person tells one kind thing they did that day, then tells us about their day.

I’m sure we have other things, but those spring to mind as things my kids mention even when they aren’t happening. Like, it will be February and one of them will say “I can’t wait for July 4th. Will the nature center have snakes in the parade this year? Do you think Uncle John got good fireworks?” etc.