I don’t think what you are saying is accurate- I was looking up the history of most of the regular things people do as American families, and almost everything

I don’t think what you are saying is accurate- I was looking up the history of most of the regular things people do as American families, and almost everything I could think to look up had pretty clear non Christian origins. It sounds like the Romans even cut evergreen trees and set them up indoors for Saturnalia. By all accounts the Catholics only changed it even to be in the winter to try to co-opt existing winter Solstice celebrations. It is hard to figure out the real history of things with so many motivated accounts… Overall, specific rituals aside, having a big family celebration around the winter solstice really seems to do wonders for the mental health of people at high latitudes- and has been done consistently since long before Christianity. As a parent in a non Christian family, I find it to be incredibly valuable and important and I take it pretty seriously, but without any sense of it being religious.