Efforts to establish National Grandparents Day culminated in 1978 with a joint congressional resolution signed by then-President Jimmy Carter. In his proclamation, President Carter said of grandparents: “Because they are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young…they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.”
In the United States, National Grandparents Day was first celebrated Sept. 6, 1979, and has been observed on the first Sunday after Labour Day ever since.