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Everyday Traditions: Simple Family Rituals for Connection and Comfort
by Nava Atlas
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Amberwood Press (2005-09-15)
ISBN: 096302437X
EAN: 9780963024374
Dewy Decimal #: 306.85
Hardcover: 158 pages
SKU: 08030140
Condition: New As issued no jac
Comments: Hardback. New condition. Issued with illustrated cover and no DJ. Cover is new. Tight binding and crisp clean text. Beautiful book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In these fast-paced times, many parents hunger for meaningful traditions to pass along to their children, simple ways to embellish daily routines, create unique celebrations, and encourage fun activities that reflect our values and passions. Join Nava Atlas who, along with the many women who contributed personal stories, explores how to weave comforting rituals into busy family life. Lushly illustrated and containing scores of inspiring ideas, this book also contains pages for the reader to record and develop their own family traditions.
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Customer Reviews
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"Everyday Traditions" is especially recommended for those just beginning to be a family,
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-03-06
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The 2006 Grand Prize Winner of the 14th Annual Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards, "Everyday Traditions: Simple Family Rituals for Connection And Comfort" by Nava Atlas was written for parents wanting to create within their own families those simple, meaningful familial traditions that once were commonplace, but in our increasingly industrialized, urbanized, technologized, fragmented lifestyles are becoming a thing of the past. In "Everyday Traditions", Nava draws upon illustrative personal stories of many women to show how even today, ordinary family routines can be embellished to create celebration, fun, and remembrance for all family members. These little traditions can include daily dinners and kitchen activities, activities preserving family history, ways of building family identity, and more. Of special note are the wonderful illustrations embedded throughout, the scores of simple and 'user friendly' ideas to apply to any family, as well as pages set aside for the reader to record and develop their own favorite family traditions. "Everyday Traditions" is especially recommended for those just beginning to be a family, and for those wanting to reestablish their family bonds weakened by the conflicting demands of modern society upon the various family members.
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Already putting new traditions in place
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-01-09
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
A well written book offering some unique & interesting ideas for family traditions. Even provides some basic instructions & resource information.
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practical and inspiring
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-12-07
This is a really cool book full of ideas for traditions and rituals for your family. There are suggestions for daily or weekly rituals like family dinner, reading together, family meetings; seasonal rituals like spring planting, summer relaxation, fall festivities and cozy winter traditions; as well as annual ideas for birthdays, anniversaries, and honoring the departed. Atlas also includes a section on friendship rituals including dates with friends, starting a women's book group, and my favorite - the lost art of letter writing. There are so many little tidbits that you'll be inspired to create your own special traditions that your children will remember and want to carry on.
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Wonderful!
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-11-26
2 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Everyday Traditions is a wonderful book! The personal stories in the book show us how to care for our soul in simple ways and to make meaning and art out of everyday activities. I highly recommend this book.
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a surprising diversity of ideas to counter the hectic pace of life
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-11-17
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am a voracious reader who generally donates books to the library upon their completion, but with "Everyday Traditions" I'm making an exception. It is a book I expect to return to time and again. It is a book of ideas, so many and so good that I know I'll never contain in my brain all that it contains in its pages, so it's earned a slot on my small bookshelf. While many books will enrich your life while you read them, how many will enrich it in the days, weeks, and years that follow, and maybe even into the lives of your children and their children? This book truly offers this if you embrace the simple premise that many of our mundane tasks can be transformed with a minimum of added flourish and a different approach of attitude.
The book is divided into large chapter categories dealing with rituals of memory, season, food, friendship, etc. Though family themes predominate, it is NOT a parenting book, because it deals with relationships which extend in all directions: parents, partners, friends, siblings, and yes, children. Within each chapter is some narrative by the author and examples drawn from her own experience, but also there are numerous and diverse ideas from many contributors. And for the cosmopolitan-minded, approaches to tradition and ritual from other cultures are included. Thanks to the very clean organization of each chapter, if certain ideas simply don't interest you, you can easily skip over them, making this an enjoyable cover-to-cover read if you choose to approach it that way. Alternatively, you could just go to an area of interest and peruse the possibilities in short order.
Finally, as icing to the cake, the author is an accomplished artist who has illustrated the entire book, so it will please your eyes while leading you into new ways of expanding your life and those around you.
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