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Create Meaningful Holiday Memories With Your Kids TRADITIONS START HERE
Festive national holidays offer a great opportunity to strengthen family ties and traditions. While most people regard the end-of-year holidays as prime time for family get-togethers, you can make great memories in any season — including the Fourth of July! To foster traditions your loved ones will enjoy, start when your children are young. Repeat your chosen rituals year after year, but stay flexible enough to update them to suit your kids’ developmental stages. Emphasize Live Action Activities that immerse your children in sights, sounds, smells, and live action can be the most memorable. Community Fourth of July parades offer a great opportunity to socialize with neighbors and friends of all ages. To make memories, don’t just watch the parade — encourage your kids to join it!
Midsummer is a great time to participate in light- hearted three-legged races, an egg toss, and sack races. As kids age, consider holding a Fourth of July Family Bowl for an annual game of soccer, softball, or touch football. At day’s end, fireworks offer a chance to gather in a lawn chair or on a blanket in the grass and enjoy some favorite snacks. Capitalize on Family Foibles Think about traditions that evoke some quirk or twist unique to your family. If your kids
immigrants’ story “An American Tail,” or darker stories, such as “Born on the Fourth of July,” the 1989 film on a Vietnam vet’s struggles after the war. Whatever your preference, watching a beloved movie together as a family can reinforce shared values. For maximum fun, ban cellphones and make lots of popcorn. Make It Matter Decorating your house and yard with flags, red- white-and-blue bunting, and patriotic pinwheels can help children get into
love water balloons, a red, white, and blue water balloon fight can leave them laughing.
the spirit. To create a tangible memoir, take photos of the
fun and print them for an album or deposit them in a “Fourth of July Memory Jar.” When you pull them out next year, those images will spark plenty of laughs!
Your family’s favorite films about patriotism or national identity may include fantasy tales, such as the animated 1986
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