Most families have traditions that animate their festivities on holidays and other happenings. Susan Abel Lieberman has put together a lively and wide selection of new traditions. She covers a lot of turf in sections on celebrating the family, religious holidays, rites of passage, national holidays, single parent traditions, and what to do when there is just you.

Many of these celebrations involve a great deal of creativity, and it may take you a while to put them together, but the effort no doubt will be worth all the expenditure of energy. Putting a new tradition in place is an activity that promotes family solidarity.