Family traditions

[1] Maintaining family traditions, such as preparing particular foods for holidays, is a form of emotional labor called kinkeeping.

Even, modern India's legal system recognizes the concept of "Karta" as the head of a Hindu joint family.

A BBC report has announced on 12 June 2003 that "Prince Harry’s decision to join the Army means he will follow a long family tradition of serving the military.

Harry’s grandfather, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had joined the Navy in 1939, and had also served in the World War II.

Meaningful family traditions have always been a valuable tool for parents and elders to carry out the responsibility of raising children and inculcating into them social values and ethos.

In the modern context, maintenance of and developing family traditions continue to be as significant as they were at the earliest times.

a box of rice with chopsticks
Many families have a tradition of eating a particular food on holidays. For example, some Jewish families in the US eat Chinese food on Christmas Day .