Every day 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? Do you think kids are more spoilt at Christmas than when you were young? Post a comment below, or on Twitter using #nsstatchat