During this season of waiting and celebrating with family and friends, try to carve out time and space to mix up the generations a bit. Consider abandoning that “kids’ table” and call the littles (and not-so-littles) up from their basement antics for some time for games and stories and just listening and talking with the older generations. You can read about the importance of intergenerational bonds for faith formation in last week’s post Faith Formation: The Importance of Inter-age Relationships.