Today the woman is a single parent and she continues the ritual with her child. It fosters in her child a sense of pride and rightness, as it did for the mother when she was young. Today, the bedtime ritual gives her daughter an important sense of security. The mother remembers that she felt this was the right way to go to sleep. Rituals are important not so much for what is said or done but for the results they yield, the sense of oneness that grows out of a shared experience and the feeling of rightness that comes from its repetition.
Rituals differ from family to family.
Commonly, rituals are thought of only around holidays or special days. Rituals should not be limited to holidays or special occasions. One person who studies families remarked, Families that have the strongest ties have the most rituals. In one family the father prepares breakfast every Sunday morning. We kids work with Dad.