Many families in the United States observe National Grandparents Day on the first Sunday of September after America’s Labor Day. People often
36 their parents on this day.
Many people
37 the day through a lot of activities such as gift-giving and card giving. Some children
38 their grandparents to school for a day where they take special lessons. Some students
39 storytelling activities that relate to their grandparents, as well as picture or music competitions where children use a story about their grandparents in their
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About four million greeting cards are
41 within the United States each year on National Grandparents Day. This day is also a
42 for people to appreciate and express their
43 to their grandparents through
44 actions such as making a phone call and inviting their grandparents for dinner. People living in nursing homes may
45 a visit from their grandchildren.
National Grandparents Day has more than one
46 . Some people consider it to have been first proposed by Michael Goldgar in the 1970s after he visited his aunt in an Atlanta nursing home. Others
47 Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade to have been the main
48 of National Grandparents Day. Throughout the 1970s McQuade worked hard to
49 people about the important contributions senior citizens made and the contributions that they would be willing to make
50 asked. She also urged(强烈要求) people to take good care of a grandparent, not for one day a year and not for material giving,
51 for a lifetime of experience.
National Grandparents Day was
52 signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Marian McQuade received a phone call from the White House to
53 her of this event. Many people believe that National Grandparents Day was inspired by her
54 . A presidential proclamation(声明) on September 6, 1979 made this day
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