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? Perhaps your family isn’t blessed with the cherished objects or those that might even become a running joke generation after generation You don’t have to dig an old broken vase out of your father’s attic to kick-start an heirloom tradition. Instead, decide to start your own tradition beginning with the current generation. Begin to collect Italian charms.
Italian Charms bracelets are the perfect family tradition and treasure: they are not as fragile as that old vase, not so valuable that they can’t be worn on a day to day basis, and not so old that they fall out of style. And, they can continue to add meaning as literally every member of the family can add meaningful charms that represent their own identity.
Read on for three easy steps to follow on your way towards a new valuable family tradition:
1) Begin by purchasing a starter bracelet.
Starter bracelets are an affordable way to get a charm bracelet started. Starter bracelets are often simple, 14 link bracelets with links that are easy to link and unlink. The importance of the starter bracelet is that it will allow you to add in personalized charms over time without running the risk of loosing loose charms; it also makes a bracelet-in-progress wearable long before you have collected all of your charms. 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.
When there is a new addition to your family, choose a charm with the appropriate birthstone. Perhaps add a charm that reflects, in some way, the community of the birth. From then on, notice what the children enjoy, their favorite toys or, as they grow older, the sports or hobbies. 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 charm bracelets to your children.
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. Tell them about the importance of their new heirloom, the meaning behind every charm and how each charm should remind them of an important chapter in their lives. Stress the importance of keeping the tradition going, and encourage them to continue adding charms until the time comes for them to pass the bracelet along to the next generation.
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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