Happy Easter! In the midst of all this violence there's still something to celebrate the life and resurrection of Jesus. We can also celebrate what Easter has meant to Bermuda for so many years, with a view to recapturing the good old days. More on this after the Top 20.Holding at #1 is Hold It Against Me by Brittney Spears. Brittney is back. Good for her. Good for the industry. This track is banging and a chart topper worldwide. Advancing to #2 is Memories by David Guetta featuring Kid Cudi, one of the smoothest, simplest yet most rocking dance tracks on the circuit. Tumbling to #3 is Aston Martin Music by Rick Ross featuring Drake and Chrisette Michelle. Falling to #4 is Grenade by Bruno Mars.Up to #5 is Who's That Chick? by David Guetta featuring Rihanna. Slipping to #6 is Firework by Katy Perry. Up to #7 is Moment For Life by Nicki Minaj. Improving to #8 is Higher, by Taio Cruz featuring Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy. This catchy and up tempo dance track is scoring big points worldwide. Falling to #9 this week is What's My Name? by Rihanna featuring Drake.Advancing to #10 is Rihanna's current hit, S&M which is getting huge amounts of airtime on radio and in clubs. Slipping to #11 is Like A G6 by Far*East Movement Featuring Cataracs & Dev. Tumbling to #12 is Fall For Your Type by Jamie Fox featuring Drake.Improving to #13 is Better Than Today by Kylie Minogue. Climbing to #14 is a former essential new tune, Born This Way, by Lady Gaga. On the way up at #15 is F**k You (Forget You) by Cee Lo Green, a former essential new hit.Improving to #16 is this week is Look At Me Now by Chris Brown featuring L'il Wayne and Busta Rhymes. I gotta give Busta props for the rap performance on this track. Awesome fast rapping. Up to #17 is ET by Katy Perry featuring Kanye West, a former essential selection.And now, this week's essential new song, which is the essential new track so far for 2011! Are you ready for it? The track's called Walking by Mary Mary, in at #18. It's a gospel dance track. I'm here dancing, bopping, had to stop typing to dance a bit to this monster gospel/dance anthem! The track is HOTTTT. It's catchy, has a huge, pulsating beat with an inspirational melody. It's midnight here in South Florida and I was falling asleep typing, but when I put this hit on I suddenly came to life! I've never had a ring tone before but Imma have to make this one my ring tone. I'm walking with Jesus and Mary Mary has been my favourite gospel act for over ten years!Entering at #19 is 6 Foot 7 Foot by L'il Wayne featuring Cory Gunz; a monster rap hit. This track just might have the hottest beat of this week's top 20 hits and is without question my favourite rap track of the moment. You simply have to hear it. It has bass in your face, mids in your ribs and highs in your eyes! Really well produced.New at #20 is On The Floor by Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull. It's good to have J-Lo back in the charts.Now back to this week's topic Easter. Bermudians often complain about being culture and heritage-starved but this is simply not true. We have lots of culture and traditions; we just don't celebrate them.One such tradition is everything we do leading up to Easter. Designing a kite is one of them. Years ago there were more kites in the skies. Back in the day kids would get excited about going to the store to purchase kite sticks, tissue paper, string and glue. Parents who were involved would give the kids advice and, in some cases, even go with them to purchase the supplies.Another tradition was for kids to go home and scope out one of mums oldest sheets that could be cut up for kite tail! Parents would sit down until late at night with their kids and help make the kite.I remember being a pretty good kite-maker. My mom used to insist that I entered kite competitions and that I had to have a kite that was unique, original, unlike anything anyone else was likely to make and/or enter into the competitions.So she used to accompany me to the library and we would look up different kite designs just so that mine would be different. Invariably, I would win a prize for being original. Then when I began building the kite, my dad would advise, supervise or assist with the kite's construction. That's an example of involved parents. That was for the kites to be entered into competitions, like the Elliot School Competition or the Agricultural Exhibition. Sorry to harp on the point but this is parenting 101 for those parents who are just not getting it done. Your job doesn't stop right after the baby is born. It's a lifetime of work and sacrifice. But we digress.Back to our traditions and the parents who do help and pass on the traditions. After being up late making kites, getting only a few hours of sleep, the family would get up early and head over to an aunt, uncle, cousin or grandparent's house for a day full of fun, food and family! Little cousins would be out flying kites with older cousins while the adults made sure there were enough fish cakes and hot cross buns for everyone to have several helpings (plus a take-home plate)!But lately we seem to have lost this family bond. Fathers aren't teaching their sons to make kites. Mothers aren't passing on fish cake recipes to their daughters. Or vice versa; daughters making kites and sons learning to cook! I don't see or hear, for those old school brothers who used to compete for the loudest summer kite, many homemade traditional Bermuda kites flying anymore. Or even boxies, square kites made of fennel sticks with brown paper bags! Remember those?Then families would all go to church on Easter Sunday. Families and people who didn't go to church all year always went to church for Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day and Father's Day. Don't sweat the holy rollers among us. It is better that a person goes to church even on those special occasions than to not go at all. Obviously the hope is that people will go to church every Sunday, but you have to start somewhere.So here's a challenge. You have one week to design and make a kite with your child. Or pull out that old family recipe and take your child shopping for the ingredients to teach them how to make hot cross buns and fish cakes. Let's make this next week a week all about quality family time. Pass on something to your children so that they can pass it onto their children, your grandchildren.If we want a Bermuda like the one we had back in the day then we need to start bringing back traditions. Let's start with making sure that we all have a Good Friday and a Happy Easter…. DJLT