What Holiday Traditions do your Teens Enjoy?

December 12th, 2008 by Sue Blaney

Do you find, like many of us, that our friends and peers come up with the best suggestions? As we are getting really close to school vacation and lots of holiday family-time, this is a good time to plan out some activities with your teenagers. I invite you to share your good ideas for holiday traditions, events, and outings that your teenagers enjoy with your family…so others can hear your good ideas. I have 7 copies of Chicken Soup for the Teenagers Soul from the Top 100 stories series to give away to the first 7 contributors with good ideas.

I’ll begin with a simple idea from the Blaneys. A few years ago when The Polar Express came out as a movie our family couldn’t wait to go see it. Of course that had been a favorite book each holiday season, going back to when my kids were very young, so even though my oldest was in college by this time, we all couldn’t wait to see the movie. And it has sparked an interest in seeing, as a family, a Christmas movie each year since. Even the movies that are targeted towards young children are fun, and being Christmastime it seems quite okay to get just as sentimental and hokey as we want. Between the movie and our dinner out, its special and satisfying time for our family.

What ideas do you have? You can leave them here on the blog or check out our page on Facebook. You can join the discussion right there on the discussion board and don’t forget to become a fan while you’re there. By the way, all these blog entries are posted on the Facebook page for those of you who find that an easier way to keep up with us.

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1 response about “What Holiday Traditions do your Teens Enjoy?”

Sue Blaney said:
December 16th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I’m posting this on behalf of Pam Rogers:
Well The Rogers family has a few traditions that we all enjoy at Christmas time. A German tradition that has been handed down to us is the hiding of the pickle ornament. The child who finds the pickle ornament on the tree Christmas morning gets to open the first present. We also grab any Holiday books we have and try to read them Christmas Eve – we absolutely have to read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas!” After going to candlelight service at church Christmas Eve, we drive around and look at all the lights. Even as kids get older, I think traditions are something that keep everyone grounded.