Agreed. At my last camp we talked a lot during staff training about the difference between policy, procedure, traditions, and something we do sometimes. Policy is pretty obvious- no drugs or alcohol or abusing children, etc. Procedures- things we do to make camp run, like how the dining hall is run or check-in process (though some of that is policy like parents signing to take their kids back,etc)
Then there is the more relevant to this thread part of the discussion of the differences between tradition and things we do sometimes. Traditions have to go on for years upon years while things we've done off and on or only for a few years are not tradition. Usually I think of tradition as something deep or sentimental. Brownies for dessert with bbq dinner would be something we do sometime, even if it happens 95% of the time.
The definition from google for tradition is "the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way."
