When family traditions become 'uncool': Creating holiday traditions teens can be excited about

Blaming it on central heating is the silliest thing I've read yet. Get real. Central heating was invented long before the 1950s.

The "central heating" theory sounds like an extension of Nathaniel Hawthorne's idea that the hearth is what brought families together to converse, and that the stove would be the demise of that family togetherness: "Domestic More..

The old traditions are still the best. My family has always made bacon, egg and cheese biscuits every Christmas morning for years. My kids always make fun of the stuff my my wants to do but they always talk about them as fun memories.