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National Grandparents Day

Celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day

Marian McQuade, a housewife in Fayette County, West Virginia started National Grandparents Day in 1978. She wanted to help lonely seniors in nursing homes and invite grandchildren to tap into the wisdom and knowledge of their grandparents.

Credit: Michael Mahue Moore/MY HERO Gallery

Teachers: Visit the free MY HERO Lesson Plan for National Grandparents Day for this film program. Includes discussion guide and learning outcomes.

Call to Action

To celebrate, do something nice for your own grandparents: adopt a grandparent or visit a nursing home.


National Grandparents Day originated with Marian McQuade (1917-2008), a housewife in Fayette County, West Virginia. 

 

Film

Enjoy this selection of short films that feature the heroes we all admire: grandparents. Each short reflects on a variety of relationships that reach beyond the stars and throughout generations of time.
Handi and V - Grandparents Day
Credit: MY HERO

Hania and Jacek

Roch Karwowski , Mia Karwowska, Franciszek Karwowski

Under the Stars

With his parents’ break up at the forefront of his mind, a young boy seeks escape and someone to talk to. Without a male figure in his life, he seeks solace under the stars with a message for his Grandad, who doesn’t need to reply, but just to listen. They are not so far from here.

Feather Flowers

Producer: Meg and Lacey
A young woman talks to her hero, her grandmother, who tells her stories of her early life in Australia.

Our Way

By: Wapikoni Mobile
Two young Innu women take up the old roads of the past to revive the identity of their Nation; a tribute to the Elders, the territory and the Innu people.

Overnight Stay

Producer: Daniela Sherer
A grandmother's recollections of people who helped her as a jew in europe during the holocaust.

Let the stories be true [Que sean verdad los cuentos]

Produced by:Carlos Gerardo García
Gregorio is a 6 year old boy, who under the hope that he will be rich in brief time, he promise to his grandpa buy him a new radio; to his father a new desk so he can work; and to her mother a real space suit for her new play. But he does not know what really goes on with them.

President Jimmy Carter, in 1978, proclaimed that National Grandparents Day would be celebrated every year on the first Sunday after Labor Day.

From Jimmy Carter's proclamation of National Grandparents Day:

"We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. Because they are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations."

Stories

Rolf Richardson, Pilot, Photographer and Author

By: Abigail Richardson
Pilot, Professional Photographer and Author

Frances Manuel, Native American Woman Hero

By: Deborah Neff, MY HERO Staff writer
Frances Manuel, who was born in the early part of the 20th century, quietly changed the world of her people and the people she met through her basket weaving and cultural presentations.

Grandfather

By: Rejina Rai
Rejina's Nepalese grandfather was forced to leave Butan with only the clothes on his back.

Parlui Valentina

By: Anastasia Raileanu

Parlui Valentina saved her two grandchildren from a house fire caused by a broken TV.

My Guardian Angel

By: Nika Jarc
Nika cut her hair when her grandmother was no longer alive to brush it tenderly.

Grandma Herring

By: Kaila Herring
A Boomer grandmother teaches her Gen Z granddaughter simple pleasures.

Paco, My Dyslexic Hero

By: Skye Malik
Have you ever felt a connection with one of your grandparents? It could be as simple as the love of the same restaurant or as complex as communicating without being able to speak the same language. Well I have had that connection with my grandfather Leo Corey, otherwise known as Paco in my family. We both share the same learning disability, dyslexia.

Abraham Nickin

By: Michel Nickin

The official flower of National Grandparents Day is the forget-me-not.

Professional artists and Students Celebrate the Love for their Grandparents and their heritage in Artworks from the Gallery

The Road Was Paved By Us- In honor of my grand mom and grand daddy These folks are the reason that I exist.

By: Michael Mahue Moore

On Prom Night I Danced With My Grandmother by Theresa Rosado- "Most images I create are rendered from memory of people I know around me.

By: Theresa Rosado

My Grandpa, Theodore Roosevelt Dexter- He was kind and gentle, funny and patient. He was an adventurer who was fearless and courageous.

By: Lisa's brother, Mark Eagan

My Hero Abba, by Ebrahim Ahmed-To others my grandfather is just any other person in the world but to me he is my star, my hero. I love my Abba.

By: Ebrahim Ahmed Ansari - Grade 3C

My Grandmother, My Hero by Samantha- My grandmother, Ruth Hartz, is a Holocaust survivor and is my hero.

By: Samantha

Waby

By: Andrea from Glendale

"She is the best grandma in the whole world!"

Official Song of National Grandparents Day

Links

Learn about a New Hero Every Day of the Year

Our Curators

 

Short films curated by MY HERO International Film Festival director Wendy Milette. 

 

Hero Stories curated by MY HERO General Editors Deborah Neff and Abigail Richardson.

Organizer created on 9/3/2012 8:33:52 AM by Becky Miller

Last edited 8/22/2023 3:47:44 PM by Abigail Richardson

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