grandparents day celebration

Queensland was the first Australian state to officially celebrate Grandparents Day on the first Sunday in November 2010.A range of community events took place in schools and at sporting events around the state. New South Wales held their first inaugural Grandparents Day on Sunday 30 October 2011, and will be celebrate it each year on the last Sunday of October. This year Grandparents Day is being led by council on the Ageing NSW (COTA NSW). The Australian Capital Territory and Western Australia held their first Grandparents Day in 2012.

National Grandparents Day began in Canada in 1995. Motion number 273 submitted in the house of commons by Mr. Sarkis Assadourian read That, in the opinion of this House, the government should consider designating the second Sunday in September of each year as Grandparents Day in order to acknowledge their importance to the structure of the family in the nurturing, upbringing and education of children.

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In Pakistan, Grandparents Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in October to pay respect to them.

The celebration was introduced to the UK in 1990 by the charity Age Concern. It has been celebrated on the first Sunday in October since 2008,although it is not widely advertised and hasnt been as commercially successful as Mother and Father Day. Businesses specialising in gifts and greeting cards have started merging the respective grandparents days with Mother Day and Father Day to try to boost sales.

National Grandparents Day in the U.S. is the first Sunday after Labor Day, in September.The holiday is expected to grow in significance over the next decade and beyond[citation needed] as the number of grandparents in the United States rises from 65 million in 2011 to 80 million in 2020 as a result of the baby boom. Grandparents in America are also increasingly responsible for child care and support. In 2012, 30% of children under five with working mothers were cared for on a regular basis by a grandparent.