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.