A “Charmed” Family Tradition
Do you envy those families that pass down watches, rings and other precious heirlooms, wishing your family had something significant and meaningful to pass along generation after generation? You don’t have to fight through the spider webs in your dad’s cellar trying to find something worth eventually passing along to your children, grandchildren and so on through the future generations. Rather, initiate your own family tradition today by collecting Italian Charms for your children.
These charms, personally assembled by you into an Italian charm bracelet are much sturdier than fragile old china and can become a much more interesting conversation piece. And, they can continue to add meaning as literally every member of the family can add meaningful charms that represent their own identity.
So how do you begin? Read on for three easy steps to follow on your way towards a new valuable family tradition:
1) Get started with an Italian charm starter bracelet.
You can start your tradition inexpensively with starter bracelets. Starter bracelets are often simple, 14 link bracelets with links that are easy to link and unlink. Since the starter bracelets are made of a series of plain, individual charms, each carefully selected charm that you add will become a point of contrast and interest in the changing, overall design. This is a valuable way of going about creating an Italian Charm collection because you want to be patient and collect your charms over many years, not all at once.
2) Buy charms over time that reflect meaningful events or stages in the lives of each family member.
On the occasion of your children’s births, purchase charms with their birthstones, their names, or the year or place of their birth. From that day forward, pay attention: what do your children enjoy? What are their hobbies and pastimes? What subjects interest them in school? To which activities do they dedicate their free time outside of school? With this information, begin to collect Italian Charms that reflect their passions, hobbies, interests, and especially their achievements. Is your daughter an honor’s student? Is your son an expert pianist? Choose an Italian charm that represents each of those interests, accomplishments and milestones.
3) Give the bracelets to your children or other family members.
This may be the hardest step! After years of collecting and caring for the Italian Charms, you might grown somewhat attached to them. But for the tradition to continue and grow, you must pass the bracelets on. Choose the occasion of your daughter’s sweet sixteen, or your son’s 18th birthday, or select your children’s high school or college graduations—or even their marriages—to bestow upon them their beautiful charm bracelets. Explain to them the significance of each of the charms, and how and why you selected them as you did. Demonstrate how and where they might add on to their charm bracelets to keep the tradition alive, and how, one day, you hope that they will pass their charm bracelets on to their children (after having added charms that reflect the important events in their own children’s lives, of course).
Leave that old vase in your father’s attic. Start a dynamic new tradition for your children today. Follow these simple steps to get started; you will find that the tradition takes on a life of its own after several years. Perhaps you might even involve your children in the selection of new charms each year! Just think, one day someone will add a charm that says: “I Love My Grandparents.”
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