Family Traditions

by Elizabeth Berg

Presents a wide range of activities, traditions, ideas, and rituals that are designed to encourage families to share quality time together, including suggestions for the major holidays, seasonal celebrations, everyday customs, and more. 20,000 first printing.

Genres: Nonfiction, Parenting

287 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Elizabeth Berg is an American novelist.
She was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and lived in Boston prior to her residence in Chicago. She studied English and Humanities at the University of Minnesota, but later ended up with a nursing degree. Her writing career started when she won an essay contest in Parents magazine. Since her debut novel in 1993, her novels have sold in large numbers and have received several awards and nominations, although some critics have tagged them as sentimental. She won the New England Book Awards in 1997.
The novels Durable Goods, Joy School, and True to Form form a trilogy about the 12-year-old Katie Nash, in part based on the author's own experience as a daughter in a military family. Her essay "The Pretend Knitter" appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2013.

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some great ideas. Especially helpful when combining family traditons from different backgrounds, it helps to clarify which things are most important to continue, what new things would be fun to start and what old things are maybe not as important. Much fun.

[Gato Negro · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is what families did before the internet.

I don't know whether to be quietly grateful for having lived in that era or to scream and parade and wave this book around as an antidote to our families breaking apart and our kids being so terribly troubled.

Sigh.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book of short stories about real life. Some I could relate to from my thoughts but all were interesting.

[Rebecca Thieme · Rating 5 out of 5]

Will need to review this when baby is older. So many fun and doable ideas.

[Linda Huffman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun book for families with children looking to start long term tradions.