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Family Holiday Traditions
Passing Down Family Traditions to Your Children
By Marjorie Sims
Reflection, the final step, is when kids begin to anticipate the next event, she says.
Holiday Traditions as Teaching Tools
Traditions give children the ability to take moral values and translate them into concrete actions, says Rabbi Peter Light of Beth Shalom Synagogue in Memphis, Tenn., who shares how Jewish traditions have affected his daughter. "Our Sabbath begins on Friday night at sundown, and each Friday our children place money on a Tzdakah Box. The money is then given to people who have less than we do," he says. "I saw the outgrowth of this tradition in my daughter at just 4 years old, when she decorated a basket and filled it with some of her own clothes and toys to give to those less fortunate." Light's daughter carried this tradition into her preteen years. "Sometimes she requested her friends to bring books and gifts for children in hospitals like Lebonheur and St. Jude instead of bringing a birthday gift for her," Light says.
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