Grandparents day

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The Grandparents' Day is a day of remembrance, which will be celebrated from country to country on different days each year. In the German-speaking area, it has been in Switzerland since 2016 .

The day is intended to promote solidarity and exchange between the generations; Grandchildren and parents can thank their grandparents for their commitment and love on this day. In some countries there is only one day of remembrance for grandmothers, such as B. in Germany , where efforts are being made to introduce a grandparents' day close to Annentag , July 26th. Elsewhere, for example in France , there are separate memorial days for grandmothers and grandfathers.

Switzerland

The Swiss Grandparents 'Day was launched by the Grandparents' magazine. This day is intended to make society aware of how much the grandparents do for society, the family and the grandchildren. According to calculations by the Federal Statistical Office, grandparents do 160 million hours of care work per year (grandmothers 113 million hours, grandfathers 47 million hours). The Federal Statistical Office evaluates this unpaid work at CHF 8.146 billion per year.

The Swiss celebrated their grandparents for the first time on March 6, 2016. Since then, Swiss Grandparents' Day has always been held on the second Sunday in March.

Large articles about Grandparents' Day appeared when it was launched in “Blick”, in “Schweiz am Sonntag”, the Swiss edition of the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” and on Radio SRF and Radio Energy Zurich. The “Schweizer Illustrierte” awarded “Grandparents” publisher Dominik Achermann a rose for the idea, the “SonntagsZeitung” placed Grandparents Day at the top of their barometer and headlined “How charming!” On the opinion page of the “Tages-Anzeiger” there was a great pros and cons. On the second Swiss Grandparents Day on March 12, 2017, numerous media took up the topic of grandparents: “SonntagsZeitung”, Radio SRF, “St. Galler Tagblatt ”,“ Züritipp ”and many more reported on the day. The film about Grandparents 'Day, which was produced by the Grandparents' magazine and reached a very large audience via social media, met with particular interest.

More countries with this memorial day

• France : Omatag , which has existed since 1987, is celebrated on the first Sunday in March, and Grandfather's Day, introduced in 2008, on the first Sunday of October. Both days of remembrance have no official character.
• Italy : National Grandparents Day is celebrated on October 2nd. The day was introduced in 2005 and was initiated, among others, by the flower traders.
• Poland : In 1965 Poland dedicated two consecutive memorial days to grandparents: Grandmother's Day on January 21 and Grandfather's Day on January 22.
• Singapore : Grandparents Day has been celebrated in Singapore on the fourth Sunday in November since 1999. The private citizen Jay Lim brought the matter to Parliament. He was inspired by his own grandmother, Lee Su Lan. She raised her five children alone after her husband's untimely death, brought her family through World War II, and had 22 grandchildren, over 30 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren when she died.
• Spain : In Spain, Grandparents Day is celebrated on July 26th. Latin American countries such as Argentina, Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay also celebrate Grandparents Day on the same day. Portugal also celebrates the Dia dos Avos on July 26th.
• USA : Grandparents Day is an institution in the USA. It is celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day in September. On National Grandparents' Day, the President addresses the nation personally. The day was introduced in 1978 by Jimmy Carter.
• United Kingdom : In 1990, Age Concern , a charity serving the needs of older people, launched Grandparents Day. Since 2008, the day has been celebrated on the first Sunday in October.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What it's about - grosselterntag.ch
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office: Satellite account household production 2016: Differentiated results according to type of volunteer work. Retrieved March 6, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Gabi Schwegler: Honor for Grandma and Grandpa: A day for the grandparents . ( blick.ch [accessed on February 27, 2018]).
4. ↑ Georg Gindely, Edgar Schuler, Head of Department, Page Three & Analysis @ Edgar_Schuler: Do we need a “grandparents day”? In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . May 3, 2016, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on February 27, 2018]).
5. ↑ Radio SRF Musikwelle - "Thank you Grosi and Grossätti" . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . ( srf.ch [accessed on February 27, 2018]).
6. ^ C'est la fête des grand-mères, mais d'où vient cette fête? In: Ouest-France . March 7, 2017, accessed February 28, 2018 (French). 
7. ↑ C'est la fête des grands-pères! In: Ouest-France . October 2, 2016, accessed February 28, 2018 (French). 
8. ↑ http://halloween.friko.net : Dzień Dziadka - Kalendarz Świąt. Retrieved March 5, 2018 (Polish). 
9. ^ National Grandparents Day Song - President Jimmy Carter. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 6, 2018 ; accessed on March 5, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.