Building Catholic Family Traditions

Rating:
Summary: useless
Review: This book is a complete waste of time. It provides nothing that rudimentary common sense wouldn't tell you. For example, in the chapter on traditions based on the sacraments, it tells you that it's traditional to have a party to celebrate a baptism. In the section on other family events, it tells you that following a sporting event your child is in, you should take a picture--and, if the picture is nice, you should frame it. As if people don't do this anyway. Even more annoying are sections based on their own family "traditions", e.g., writing down the cute mistakes kids make when trying to pronounce words--and then they spend two pages listing examples of the cute mistakes their own kids have made. Does this really help the reader? Not to mention the fact that I don't think they know what "tradition" means. Sending a care package to a kid going off to college is NOT a tradition (it IS a nice thing to do, but that's not why I bought this book). I wanted a book on traditional ways to celebrate the liturgical year, and this provided absolutely no help.