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Family traditions help establish continuity and closeness in a family. Traditions can focus on holidays, rites of passage or make ordinary days special.

Jake Booty is following in the footsteps of John David, Josh and Abram with his selection as Most Valuable Player on Louisiana's 2007 Class 2A All-State team

Where better to be during the Christmas Season than New Orleans, a city that still lives and breathes in down home charm and family traditions.

Celebrate these whimsical January holidays with your children.

Family traditions & holiday celebrations strengthen family bonds. Creating new Christmas traditions will unite new & help existing families cope with grief at Christmas.

Holiday traditions are a great way to strengthen a family and create lasting memories. Good traditions also help to define what specific holidays mean to families.

Each family has holiday family traditions. Making an effort to enjoy the best family traditions allows families to make the best of the holiday season together.

If looking for a different, yet delectable addtion to add to your table this season, or a change of pace for your everyday meals, these light-as-air rolls are perfect.

If you're thinking about using a family keepsake as your engagement or wedding ring, here are a few things to keep in mind.

Rituals provide substance and meaning amidst the chaos of modern life, and Catholic faith rituals provide comfort, order, and much-needed nourishment for the soul.

Family traditions brighten the holidays and bring families and friends together year after year. Traditions and the memories they make are fun and special.

Telling family stories together gives children a sense of belonging, can be a powerful teaching opportunity, and is a skill that can be learned with a little practice.

Good memories are wonderful to have. Doing things as a family, or even one on one with each child is a great way to make some memories.

Many families have certain traditions that are passed on from generation to generation. Women in the Hunter family use quilting as their tradition.

Celebrate the holidays in style, without causing a personal financial crisis, by following these tips.

Reinforce the notion of balance and healthy lifestyle. Kick off a day of indulgence, and a hectic holiday season, with a vigorous 5K walk or fun run with the kids.

Each year as families gather around the tree, they have an opportunity to reminisce together. Each ornament will bring to mind important events from the past year.

Make this Christmas about creating family traditions where kids learn the importance of and great feeling that comes with giving to others.

Pagans often look back to respect their elders and ancestors at Samhain. A popular way of doing this is with an ancestor altar.

A Christmas memories tree decorated with pictures, children's handicrafts, and special ornaments can have a wonderful effect on the people who may be alone at Christmas.

Thanksgiving traditions can bring a family together in new ways and also help it reach out to those in need during the holiday. These meaningful ideas will inspire!

As much as we all enjoy food during the holidays, we can make simple cutbacks and replace old behaviors with these family fun ideas to control our overeating.

Family customs that celebrate Christmas do not need to be elaborate or stressful to prepare. Here are four simple ways to create lasting holiday traditions and memories.

Instead of just accepting the first New Year's party invitation this year, come up with your own special New Year's traditions to create lasting memories with your family

The musicologist D.K. Mukherjee writes that gharana is a Hindi word meaning `family' in the broad sense of the word.

Looking for a gift for a married son or daughter? Give newlyweds treasured family Christmas ornaments as gifts for Christmas.

Young children with food sensitivities want to participate in holiday traditions. How can parents cope with this unique and increasingly common situation?

Christmas stockings are a fun image to draw on the blustery days leading up to the big holiday. Their simple shapes make them easy for anyone, even children, to draw.

Parenting really can be more fun than frustrating. Don't think so? These five tips may just change your mind. Enjoy your children more!

Gift ideas that won't cost a lot of money but come from the heart

A time capsule is a fun way for families to preserve their cherished memories. Uncovering your time capsule after a set period of time is thrilling for everyone!

Chapter 4 of The Quran solidifies the right of women to choose who they will marry, gives them freedom from violence and provides for a recourse to divorce.

Thanksgiving offers teachers an opportunity to strengthen student reflection and foster a sense of appreciation by adapting an elementary activity for middle schoolers.

Kids can't stop talking about their family's visiting Christmas elf and all the mischief he gets into during the holiday.

At this family owned and operated Muscadine grape vineyard, everything is done by hand, from harvesting to bottling and corking, and everybody pitches in to help.

Armed with a vision and faith in God, the Fussell family of Duplin County have turned a little wine making business into one of the world's top wine producing companies.

Help children understand the real meaning of Thanksgiving by getting in touch with their creative side.

Advent Calendars can include activities and traditions to make the preparations for the season more meaningful.

What place do family traditions have in your holiday celebrations? No matter what the tradition is, it can serve to bind your family and friends.

Every season is a celebration. Winter is the beginning of a new year. Quiet and cold winter days are a wonderful time to create seasonal family traditions.

Families can brainstorm unique ways to have fun during some odd holidays they didn't know existed.

Military schools come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, just like traditional schools. But, they all have one thing in common...the basics for discipline and academics.

Christmas stockings are an integral part of Christmas for many families, so a baby's first Christmas stocking can mark the beginning of an important family tradition.

October is Italian American Heritage Month and the perfect time to teach children about their ancestors and the accomplishments of Italians and Italian Americans.

The holidays are a great time to gather friends and family together and create lasting memories. Christmas celebrations are the perfect time for fun family traditions.

Finding great holiday traditions when doing Thanksgiving planning can be difficult. Families wishing to plan a fun Thanksgiving weekend should consider their options.

The half-sister of Hank Williams Jr. and daughter of Audrey and Hank Williams Sr. will give a rare interview about her famous country-music family on Dec. 13, 2008.

Remembering the "old country" in this contemporary update is a way to retain ethnic family traditions and introduce an Eastern European food to a new American generation.

This digitally animated series based on David Kirk's popular picture books shows children the unique ways in which diverse families can form.

These suggestions for a divorced family Christmas will help give the gift of love and harmony. Christmas and divorce for kids can be peaceful, not painful.