We make time to not schedule anything.

We make time to not schedule anything.

We don’t do a traditional Shabbat dinner since we aren’t very observant, but I can’t let go of the need to have everyone together for dinner on Friday nights. When the kids were little, Fridays were pizza and movie nights. Now that they’re older, we insist on Friday night dinner but the kids are free to go out afterward. Sometimes they do, sometimes we all end up watching a movie or playing scrabble. We do our best to have dinner as a family every night but schedules don’t always make it possible, so Friday is the one night that’s mandatory.

We also go to brunch most sundays (if no one has a tournament), and it’s optional. The kids usually want to go, but the oldest sometimes sleeps right through it.

On Monday mornings my DH and I simultaneously yell "Do you have your recorder in your backpack for music today?!?!?!"

Does that count?

We all have a special dinner together on Friday night (that's part of a religious tradition but you could do it too on any night), a special lunch together on Saturdays (same). We also have movie nights on Sundays, we often go out for coffee on Sunday mornings (dependent on other kid activities). We also have lots of little traditions relating to certain foods we eat at different times (both religious and unrelated to religion), and birthday traditions. My son (aged 7) in particular is very into making things into traditions, so we have gone along with that.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting question. We are not religious so we don’t have any. I always wonder if my kids are missing out, but I didn’t have any as a kid either!

Wonder if any non-religious people have any?

Tradition and religion are two separate things.

Sunday movie day.

Friday night Shabbat dinner (usually -- we're not religious about it (haha)).

Saturday morning bagels.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting question. We are not religious so we don’t have any. I always wonder if my kids are missing out, but I didn’t have any as a kid either!

Wonder if any non-religious people have any?

Traditions don't have to have anything to do with religion.

Getting up and going to school and work. That's our weekly tradition. Except for today. My kids are out for snow (we have none, but the rest of the county does) and my husband is on spring break (he's retired from his career, so he's now having fun as a bus driver ). My daughter is cleaning the house (she woke up in a cleaning mood, and the cat is "helping"), and I'm relaxing, since I have suddenly acquired a couple of maids.

Great question. I’m v interested in a strong family culture in our house and so have invented traditions every week, although our son is little so when he’s older I’ll make a bigger deal about it. Right now we go to comet ping pong on Friday nights and Sunday morning we go out for pancakes. It sounds little but adds a nice commitment to our weekends and we talk about pizza night through out the week.

Pizza Friday.

We also like to read the Sunday newspapers together over waffles.

No kids yet, but when I was a kid (under 11/12 at least), my family did movie night at home every Friday with popcorn.

My fiance and I have the "tradition" of making a crock pot for the week every Sunday night together, but that's probably not what you are looking for.

We all go out to breakfast together each weekend morning and usually all go out together Friday night.

Interesting question. We are not religious so we don’t have any. I always wonder if my kids are missing out, but I didn’t have any as a kid either!

Wonder if any non-religious people have any?

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