The Book of New Family Traditions: How to Create Great Rituals for Holidays & Everydays

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Written by: Meg Cox

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.850973
ISBN: 0762414421
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2003-04-16
Publisher: Running Press
Release Date: 2003-04-15
DteCode: j01

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Overcoat Day. Welcome Summer Party. Monthly Pizza Blast. Bus Stop Party. These are just some of the enjoyable and inventive new traditions you 'll find in The Book of New Family Traditions. Life isn't like it used to be, and we need to invent new traditions for today's families. Meg Cox guides you through the simple steps that help families fully cherish all of those special moments and milestones, help heal the wounds of trauma and loss, and strengthen that indomitable spirit of identity within a family. With The Book of New Family Traditions, your family can create the kind of celebrations that lead to everlasting happy memories. When author Meg Cox became a mother in 1994, she started a personal quest to find inspiring, contemporary family rituals. She sought rituals that were simple but profound, practical and yet lots of fun. Using her skills as a journalist, she spent more than three years interviewing diverse families all over the country and compiling a collection of inventive new traditions. In this book you'll find fresh ways of commemorating established holidays like Thanksgiving and July 4, Passover and Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. You will also find original observances for birthdays, bedtime and dinnertime, not to mention a whole compendium of unexpected traditions: sports rituals, pet rituals, homework rituals, vacation rituals and family meetings, among others. The Book of New Family Traditions provides a wealth of fun, easy and creative new celebrations for your family for every occasion.

User Comments about the The Book of New Family Traditions: How to Create Great Rituals for Holidays & Everydays

I was first 'introduced' to this book on ParentsDigest and thought - wow, a book that helps me develop my own family traditions instead of relying on the old (and somewhat stale) traditions from my youth. I love their suggestions and have already started creating some fun new traditions with my own family.

This is the perfect book for a new family or the perfect and a very unique gift for baby showers and weddings. The author knows that its more than just the 10 big holidays - Meg Cox encourages all of us to celebrate Everyday by adding traditions and rituals to our lives. Traditions are so important in molding our family identities.

This book is filled with so many wonderful ideas it's actually uplifting to read. Meg Cox's creativity, vision, and committment to families ring through on every page. And as you do, you get the feeling that no matter how busy your life is, there's a family ritual that's just right for you. If you want to discover simple, practical things you can do to enhance the texture of your relationships with your children, this is the book to buy.

Brimming with stories and tips, wit and wisdom as well as colorful illustrations, this book is tantamount to the Whole Earth Catalog of rituals. Meg Cox's latest book is a winner. Culling from interviews with families nationwide and from her own astute observations, Cox shows us how rituals can strengthen our family bonds, can help to ground us (especially helpful in such uncertain times as these have been) and can provide us with meaningful memories. A creative way to teach good values. Just as rituals add pizazz to daily life, Cox's book brings a fresh and vigorous perspective to the body of literature on the subject of tradition.

This book of new family traditions is so reader-friendly and so comfortable to pick up and browse that I can hardly get my copy out of the hands of my co-workers.The presentation and style are perfect for the topic and the information presented is easy to digest and creative enough to encourage our own ideas on the topic. This should be on the bookshelf of every one who cares about family or has one and wants to celebrate that special and loving relationship. This book is ideal for new parents but even us older parents of teenagers.