Every week, we pull some stats from a survey and say have a chat about the findings.
Today: Grandparents and Christmas traditions.
- 88 per cent of grandparents think it’s important to pass on Christmas family traditions to their grandchildren
- 76 per cent of grandparents think their relationship with their grandchildren is different to the relationship they had with their own grandparents
- 62 per cent of grandparents think their grandchildren need to understand the value of traditions in order to carry it on to the next generation
- 53 per cent feel the difficulty in sharing Christmas traditions is due to computer games taking the attention of their grandchildren
- 32 per cent feel it’s because their grandchildren get too many Christmas presents
- 86 per cent of grandparents will be seeing their grandchildren over the festive period this year.
Source: Research on behalf of www.newmarketholidays.co.uk
Do you think it’s important Christmas traditions are passed down through the generations? Is there a particular tradition you’re especially fond of and want to always maintain in your family? Leave your comments below.
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