Family tradition or family traditions, as Wikipedia likes to call it, is when your family likes to do something really bizaar and stupid and then you have to go along with it and act like you actually friggin enjoy it. And some people are transformed enough by their "heroes" (parents) that they actually want to follow family tradition, and that they don't care about what other people think. Which is frigging ridiculous. The most popular family tradition is stuffing a dead skunk into your neighbor's mailbox every other day until they find out it's you and call the police.