Debra Hasbrook, M.Ed.
Debra Hasbrook, M.Ed.
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12/3/2014
Family traditions provide a sense of cultural, community and family identity. Families who share seasonal or timely traditions and rituals gain a sense of who they are as a community, as well as providing a sense of continuity and security in children. Traditions and rituals in the classroom can also do this. These are the memories that support resiliency as children grow and relive the experience. We are musical family. For many years each Sunday my siblings and I would bring our young families to visit my parents. Guitars in hand, voices ready we would sit together and sing all the old favorites. My niece wrote a paper about her fondest childhood memory, and this was hers. All the children would gather, listen, and sometimes sing along as we played for my parents. If you ask anyone of these young people they will tell you how precious that time was for them growing up. As my mother became less able to take care of herself, she would recount her own memories of that special time together.
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