Family Rituals
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Topic: Family Rituals
Posted By: Glow
Subject: Family Rituals
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 8:53am
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What ARE YOURS?
Just thinking about things to do Daily with Children that can be developed into rituals or good habits. Then weekly, monthly & yearly. At this stage we have daily chores chart (of course-) And Certain days of the week we do special things. Im trying to devise a longer term plan. Does anyone do Halloween (or Samhain) etc & enjoy the same activities together religiously? Oh yea we also do friday night fish n chip night(naughty eating habits i know!!)   ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 9:27am
| sunday night is one of the only nights that hubby is home for tea, so we always have a nice tea, dessert and watch the zoo together. about al i can think of right now. |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 10:24am
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we dont have any except hubbys family always insist on having everyone over for xmas a week early cause they go away for actual xmas.
otherwise bed time is our most formal/ritualised part of the day. even gabriel can tell you what comes next after dinner etc. I dont do halloween and dont want to encourage it with the kids but they are a bit young yet anyway and at the mo we play things like easter and birthdays by ear too. sorry not much help at all was i?! |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 10:29am
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We have some:
Friday night is takeaway night. Saturday night is roast night. Groceries are done every Saturday morning, and we get Bakers Delight for either a late breakfast or early lunch. Sunday we stay in our pj's and have a cooked breakfast and watch the Home and Away Omnibus, once that's finished we get showered and start our day. Sunday nights the kids have baths or showers ready for school the next day. Every second Sunday we go to my parents for "pink cake" (raspberry slice) and hang out there for a couple of hours. We don't do halloween either. Now that the touch rugby season is about to start, we will have touch every Wednesday night, which will mean "easy" dinner.. We don't really have any that are different, but these ones work in our house. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Tiff
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 10:31am
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When I was young going to into town and going to the central library as a family every week (very big book people here!) was great, we would then sometimes have a meal when out also.
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 11:05am
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Umm... we've got a few different sorts of things...
Weekly stuff: - Friday night is Takeaways - Saturday night is Date Night (currently Nat and I have an at-home date once the kids are in bed) and if we're having a special dinner then the kids know they are having noodles or toasted sandwiches or something easy like that, and that Date Night snacks are not for them! - Sunday lunch is something fun (often chicken nuggets and chips) (tradition carried on from Nat's family) Other times: - Birthday person gets to choose what we have for dinner that night and what cake they want from my cake book - Easter Sunday we have boiled eggs for breakfast (tradition carried on from my family) - Christmas morning we sit around the tree and sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus before we open any presents - We have our first strawberrys of the season on my birthday in late October (tradition carried on from my family) Other stuff: - We don't "do" the tooth fairy, Easter bunny or Santa, but we have our own things instead: For loosing teeth, I keep the baby teeth in an old film canister and we "buy" them at $1 a tooth. Kiya gives them straight to me. For Easter, we give the children a small chocolate bunny and a novelty egg from us directly. If the youngest is too young for chocolate at their first Easter, I buy them a soft toy instead. For Christmas, we all (Nat and myself included) have stockings that Nat and I openly sort out... the kids know the stockings are from Mum and Dad... they usually contain a bottle of drink, a chocolate bar, some lollies of some sort, a small packet of chips, and a small gift. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 11:36am
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Well for Ella's first Easter I 'gave her' some dairy-free Lindt eggs which since I was breastfeeding her at the time I ate for her so she eventually got them (aren't I a nice mummy! I say bedtime prayers with Ella if I'm the one tucking her in. And whoever is taking her to her cot at night will bring her over to the other one just as she's heading to bed, and we smother her with kisses on both cheeks while she grins and giggles away. If her daddy gets her up in the morning, he lifts her up to the ceiling to play with her mobiles first thing - she loves it. ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 4:00pm
| We haven't started any of the sabbats yet Glow, but maybe soon with Samhain coming up. It's a little wierd for me being from the northern hemisphere and sort of having things in reverse, but I manage! |
Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 4:10pm
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Cool thanks ladies, for sharing some ideas. Easter is a good 1 then there is the tooth fairy too; Gee fun loosing teeth
Like your strawberry tradition Bec ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 5:49pm
| oh, remembered the boys "give" each other a book each xmas and birthday |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 6:53pm
I like the teeth one Becca - we may "borrow" that one. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 7:14pm
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We copied Becca and now have a date night on Tues when we watch a movie together usually (although it hasn't happened lately with various things going on )
We have pancakes on Sat morning and then usually a walk over the hill to let DD play at the park and then go to a cafe for coffee/hot choc/fluffy  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 7:24pm
I just thought of burying apples at Samhain to celebrate the passing of our loved ones & making apple funny faces with raisins & rices etc for the trick tr eaters or pumpkin pie? We could even make costumes.
 ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 8:13pm
| we often celebrate a few japanese festivals - Tanabata - which ins the 7th of July - we tie our wishes to a tree (kinda how it goes) and OBon, which is a day of the dead - kinda again. i like the idea of remembering ones who have passed, rather than the rituals themselves which involve candles and shrines. |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 8:15pm
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apart from the bedtime things, we have a couple of things we do. Takeaways on sat. night (sometimes we go crazy and have them on friday instead..)
Thursday night is steak and chips night Sunday is farmers market morning Tuesdays is music Go for a drive on Xmas eve and look at the chrissy lights Birthday person gets to choose dinner (either out or at home) Santa Stockings - we all have one (well, Charly dosen't yet) and I fill it with little bits and bobs - lollies, fruit, deodies/moisterisers/hair stuff (teenager)and wee toy for J and more choccies for mum and dad. Our family did this, and I liked it. Lots of other wee things. Love the tooth idea, Becca. Am going toplay "easter bunny" by ear, but I love Christmas, and get rather caught up in Santa, although the children will know the true meaning of Chrissy, and when they are a bit bigger, they will come to midnite mass with me. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 8:41pm
| OT but my mum kept all my teeth, but told me about the tooth fairy. anyway, she moved,and i found all these teeth. "who's are these mum?" I ask "the dogs" she said "i kept his baby teeth" and i believed her..up until about 2 years ago wheni was telling story about mum keeping my dog teeth and someone pointed out that that was pretty much impossible and then i clicked...oooohhhh (BTW I was about 20 when she told me the original tale) |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 8:46pm
That's really funny. When I took my dog to be fixed at 5 months, the vet nurse pulled out a tooth at the same time as it was loose and they didn't want her to swallow it post surgery. She had put it in a jar and asked me if I wanted to keep it. Apparently some people do keep their dogs baby teeth ------------- 
 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 9:14pm
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We don't have any rituals apart from having a roast on sunday, which is something that both our families did, seems to be an English thing. -------------
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 9:14pm
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just remembered we do have one xmas tradition...i put a piece of fruit in their stockings.
Just realised what a meanie mummy i am. My husband and i put up the tree in the night without the kids...and then a week later we decorate it in the night without the kids too!
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Posted By: tashzmum
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 9:35pm
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i think most of mine are more routine then anything else.
we all sleep in on dfs days off from work and he normally lets me sleep in on the weekend too, we each get a christmas stocking and it has lotsa lil pressies in plus some junk food and a peice of fruit, we go out for tea on my birthday with my family and grandma pays, on tuesday evenings tash gets to go to the supermarket with df and she gets lollipop if she good(or if she smiles at the manager, who is a family friend, and asks for one) thursday is grocery day and shopping day. for tashs birthday we always have a bbq. we dont do anything for halloween, or really easter.if i feel like it i might get a few eggs for me and df and tash gets a stuffed toy bunny i tend to change the lounge around once every couple of months and i change the bedrooms around every 3 months. not sure if that counts but its something i decided on doing and tash and df do it together. |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 15 October 2007 at 9:59pm
your such a rebel
my gosh annie! its less than a week til you get married! exciting!!! our rituals -takeaways friday (seems to be a common occurance haha) -i work most sat mornings so i do french toast for caitlyn on sundays -sometimes we'll go to church -we go to my grans after church -easter i have egg hunts and buy an egg cup for her -christmas, she gets to buy a decoration and helps me put up the tree - we also go look at the lights at the houses people have put up - now that shes a bit older she can start picking presents for family with me - and before christmas and easter i always talk with her about jesus, and what He does for us and have a little prayer time - for her birthday i decided when i was pregnant (and you still have time to call your mind your own!) that i would only do a party for her 1st, 5th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, and 21st...after that she can blimming throw her own! , all the other birthdays, she has her favourite dinner, or we have a friend over -also in regards to birthdays, each year on the eve of her birthday i write her a letter, with bits and pieces of what shes done that year and photos and i put it in a box for her to recieve when she turns 21 (ha sucker! i bet she'd rather have a car!) thats all i can think of 
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