Ep. 205 | Favorite Christmas Traditions for Family Teams
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Jeremy and Jeff discuss Christmas traditions.
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| 0:00.0 | To us, it's really fun because it's a really cool way to serve and love and kind of honor |
| 0:03.7 | people around you. |
| 0:09.1 | What's up guys, Jeff and Jeremy here with the holidays here and coming. |
| 0:12.8 | Hopefully you're listening to Kenny G. |
| 0:13.9 | I start listening to Kenny G in July, so it doesn't really matter what time of year it is. |
| 0:17.0 | But favorite Christmas traditions for family teams. |
| 0:20.4 | And I think that's a good question. How do you |
| 0:21.9 | actually have traditions that actually support the family team, not just disintegrate the family |
| 0:26.1 | or turn into some time of consumeristic tradition? So Jeremy, how have you guys thought through this? |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah. So our favorite family tradition that I think we've enjoyed is around sibling gift giving. |
| 0:36.9 | And this is something we talk about in the 31 |
| 0:39.6 | Creative Ways book. So just a little, if you want to see the rest of those different ways, but one of the |
| 0:44.9 | things that we've loved about Christmas is when our kids were pretty young, we had this awesome |
| 0:50.0 | sort of secondhand sort of toy store, had books, had clothes. And so one by one, we would |
| 0:56.1 | take the kids in and they would spend, you know, 20 bucks or something getting little gifts for |
| 1:00.7 | all of their siblings. And so this just caused the kids on, when Christmas Day came, there was |
| 1:07.0 | as much and even for some of our kids, even more excitement as they anticipated |
| 1:11.1 | watching their siblings open up the gifts that they had picked out, then they were feeling |
| 1:17.1 | about opening their own gifts. And that's a huge win, right? Because you're kind of experiencing, |
| 1:23.6 | they're experiencing that a lot of the joy from Christmas at a very early age comes from giving. |
| 1:29.0 | Their focus on Christmas Day isn't completely on themselves, but is on their siblings. There's bonds going on. The siblings are communicating to each other. Hey, I know you like this thing. So I thought about you and I got you something. So there were just so many cool things that came out of that, that it became a bigger and bigger tradition. |
| 1:44.1 | Now that our kids are older, |
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