1/20/2024 0 Comments Peaceful dragon school ann arborHe told his teacher that we do not celebrate Fourth of July. He has another worksheet filled with drawings for other traditions on other holidays, but I am surprised to discover that he has left the Fourth of July blank. He has drawn pictures of all his favorite Easter traditions - candy, eggs, candy eggs, eggs filled with candy, chocolate Easter bunnies, the real Easter bunny. I did not know Easter was his favorite holiday. Little Brother comes home at the end of the day with a worksheet he has completed about his favorite holiday: Easter. Worried about what embarrassing things Little Brother might tell his classmates, his sisters try to refresh his memory about the (slightly) more “normal” traditions that we share as a family like celebrating Thanksgiving Eve with our friends, singing with Santa, making mochi at Mochitsuki, barbequing after the Memorial Day parade, eating long noodles for long life on birthdays, lion dancing at Chinese New Year, and more. M always argues back, “It’s not a tradition just because you say it is.” Is it because Mommy is too tired to cook on Friday nights? No, it is because, “It’s tradition!” What if he thinks these are real traditions and tells his classmates about them?įor example, whenever Hao Hao does anything that bothers her older sister M - including going into her room and sitting on her bed and reading her books, she insists that she has to do it because, “It’s tradition!” Whenever anyone breaks out into song and dance, the stated reason is always because, “It’s tradition!”Įvery Friday night we have dumplings for dinner before Chinese School. However, because Little Brother is so little, he cannot always tell when his sisters are joking. When my seven-year-old son, Little Brother, came home from school and said that his first grade class would be talking about family traditions the next day, his older sisters all simultaneously said, “Uh oh.”īecause our family talks about traditions a lot more than “normal” people, his sisters jokingly call a lot of things “tradition” that are not really traditions in the normal sense. Bollyfit's Anuja Rajendra (in blue) leads students and community members in a new twist on an old tradition, a Bollywood flash mob dance performance at Ann Arbor Summer Festival Top of the Park Wednesday | Photograph courtesy of Peter Smith
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