HAPPY THANKSGIVING !
This Thanksgiving Day I am thankful for YOU.
You may be a treasured friend, a precious member of our family, a casual acquaintance, a first time or long time visitor to the AgeEsteem site, or a complete stranger. – Know that I am thankful for YOU.
You are a blessing and a gift to this world as you share your special talents and personality each day. You may think that your contribution is small within the bigger picture, but what would that bigger picture be without all of our little efforts added together?
Thank you for being YOU, just the way you are. This Thanksgiving Day and every day I am truly thankful for YOU.
I pray that I, too, might be a blessing in your life in some small way.
May your Thanksgiving be filled with happiness, fond memories, and age esteem.
Bonnie Fatio
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Having fun and meeting with people of different generations keeps us up to date on what is happening in the world as seen from other age groups. It also gives us opportunities to share from our own point of view.
A delightful way to meet with others is through traditions that we share. The tradition of having an annual family picnic to celebrate the national holiday creates memories for each member of the family.
If you don’t have a family, borrow neighbors and friends to create an intergenerational tradition. Here are some ideas.
- Organize a treasure hunt mixing ages on each team. It is a great way to learn to value the qualities of others as you follow clues that demand creativity, logic, technical skills, physical agility… Different members get to shine at different moments. You can be certain that it will become a tradition as participants beg to have another.
- Produce a play and perform it for friends and neighbors each summer. All ages can work together as actors, prompters, ticket sellers… You can perform outdoors or in a garage.
- Orchestrate a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Each person can arrive with a homemade hat or you can encourage them to bring material, ribbon, paper, flowers and food like string beans with them for everyone to share while they make their hats on the spot. You can also break them into teams to make one hat among them which is then modeled and judged. Be sure to have a judge from each age group on the jury.
Ideas are endless. Fly kites. Line dance. Have a day at the beach. Organize a spelling contest. You will be surprised how much fun it can be to begin an intergenerational tradition.
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