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The Importance Of Family Rituals

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Introduction:
Family rituals happen in every family, passed down from generation to generations or establishing new family rituals as you start a family of your own. This paper will include my personal family rituals and what we do to form a strong relationship with each other. It will also include South African typical rituals and comparing it with our family rituals. Family rituals include celebrations, traditions and interaction with others (Spagnola and Fiese, 2007, 284). Taking that into consideration I will focus on these aspects as well.
South African rituals vs personal rituals:
Rituals help to build relationship with family members but also with friends and partners. Rituals can be the positive and negative change in relationships …show more content…

Talking about different cultures and using different vocabulary and language terms can widen children’s knowledge. After a busy and tired week we would have a nice Sunday family lunch together and hear about new stories and what we have planned for the week to come. Closeness and distance, connection with each other and detachment with family members can be seen through having rituals (Walsh, 485).
While having a dinner meal we as a family discuss past experiences and we also talk about future plans and things that we would like to do together as a family. My brother and I would talk about what we have learned at school and in this way we would learn from one another and widen our perspectives and …show more content…

I did not have a car when I started studying and my dad used to drop me off at class and my mother fetched me after class and this car rides were what made my day. We would catch up on everything that happens in our busy lives. Our talks were personal and yet also fun and we got to form a stronger bond in our relationship instead of drifting apart because of the busy lifestyles that we had. We believe strongly in the family bond. Because of my father’s past experience with his family, he concentrated on the fact that we as a family must grow strong and we should have a personal relationship with each other as opposed to being just another person in each other’s life (Stone, 2016).
Afrikaans people believe that when you have your first born child she or he will be named after the maternal mother or father. Children are often raised in a Christian household and attend church every Sunday. After a certain age the child then becomes a member of the church and are allowed to have communion. (Smith,

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