Grandparents' Day – 10 October




No wonder, then, that the contact between grandparents and grandchildren is often intensive and hardly weakens at all during and after puberty. This is more than enough reason to spend a day with the grandparents on 10 October and spoil them.



McQuade began promoting the idea of such a day of honour in 1970 and was successful, although for the time being only in her home state. Fortunately she persisted, and the day was finally proclaimed by US President Jimmy Carter in 1978.





- 21 January: Poland – only grandmothers (grandfathers one day later)
- 22 January: Poland – grandfathers only (grandmothers one day earlier)
- First Sunday in March: France – grandmothers only (grandfathers in October)
- 4 June: Netherlands – Grandparents
- 26 July: Brazil and Portugal – Grandparents
- 28 August: Mexico – Grandparents
- Last Sunday of August: Taiwan – Grandparents
- Early September: USA – Grandparents (first Sunday after Labor Day)
- Second Sunday in September: Estonia, Canada and Philippines – Grandparents

- 2 October: Italy – Grandparents (also Guardian Angel Festival)
- First Sunday in October: France – grandfathers only (grandmothers in March)
- First Sunday in October: Great Britain – Grandparents
- Second Sunday in October: Germany, Hong Kong – Grandparents
- 10 October: Switzerland – Grandparents
- Last Sunday in October: Australia – Grandparents
- Second Sunday in November: Southern Sudan – Grandparents
- Fourth Sunday in November: Singapore – Grandparents