Granny day

not for me thanks, cuddles and homemade drawings are the best presents ever and i get them all year round. i even think fathers day and mothers day a bit rubbish too.

They held a 'Grandparent's Day' at my son's primary school, many years ago now, and Mum and the other grannies were fed and watered and entertained by the children. They were absolutely chuffed!
I do think Grandparents are used a bit these days. So a day of appreciation would be a great idea.

Certainly NOT.

Oh Grannyb en, your little chap sounds lik mine( I half and two, as he puts it!) and moments like that beat any kind of present into a cocked hat!

GabriellaG what a wonderful daughter you have.

There is a grandparents’ day but when it first came out we told our son and DIL not to bother with it as there is already a mothers’ day and fathers’ day when we get cards from the grandchildren as well as our sons. I’m not sure when it is or if it caught on.

As others have said time with the grandchildren, listening to them telling about school and lots of hugs and kisses are worth much more than gifts.

NO! !!!!! Just consider your selves lucky to have grandkids in the first place.

No to Granny day.

Intermittently, one of my daughters visits with two large carrier bags with gifts (for no reason) each wrapped in paper or tissue which is my colour of the moment, elicited by questioning me some weeks earlier.
A single wrapped rose. A helium balloon with 'Mum In A Million' in script. A lace edged cami. Leather gloves, 4 pale pink linen napkins, L'Occitane hand cream, a reed diffuser, deckle edged writing paper and tissue lined envelopes, all exactly things I covet and am thrilled to receive.
She makes me close my eyes and feel each parcel and guess the contents before I can open it. Then she makes tea and opens a box of cakes while I wipe my tears.
Those unexpected gifts and the thought that she spent so much time choosing and wrapping them, make me deeply emotional.
The thing is, that we often lock horns as we are very much alike personality wise, so the fact that we never fall out and value each other very much is my blessing.

Sunday, 7 October
National Grandparents Day 2018 in United Kingdom.

Between Birthday gifts, Christmas and mother/fathers day gifts our children spend enough on us, plus we don't need anything. I would hate my CG to feel they had to buy me a gift because the media says so. A hug is all I need when I see them.

There is already "Grandparents Day" usually around September I believe?

Yes, it's on 7th October, and has been happening for many years. I have told my daughter to ignore it - after all if we are grannies we are also mothers. My son in law thinks that every Sunday should be Son Day!

I get a card from my GC on mothers day Fine by me.

I do so agree with you, do away with them all and leave Mothering Sunday as the church day that it is for those people who attend religious services.

Not for me, thank you. If I have to resort a particular day to be remembered/considered I'll just pass on that. Would usually say any excuse to see them suits me but this seems a step too far.

No from me too. It would be yet another day for commercial exploitation.
It would also be yet another day when families are conflicted over which grandma to prioritise, if they have more than one.
My daughter’s children have four true grandparents , plus many more by extension, as their parents are divorced, as am I from my daughter’s father, so there are two step-grandparents.
Then there are the grandparents of their cousins ( non related) who they go on holiday with every year.
Then the parents of the step grand parents.....
I have reckoned up and these lucky children have about 12 people of my generation who adore them and shower them with love ( and presents at Christmas).
I know I am number one Granny though!

No from me also, for all reasons stated. Let us also do away with Mothers Day, Fathers Day, etc. Just commercialism

I'm "agin it" too. Mother's day was embarrassing when I was a child, as Daddy ignored it, and Mummy was hurt that he didn't help us buy or do something to mark the day. He gave in to the extent of celebrating her birthday and letting her celebrate his, although it was considered very "odd and continental" of us in the West of Scotland where grown-ups' birthdays were not celebrated at all when I was a child. I have no idea when my father's parents, sister and brother's birthdays were, or any of my parents' friends either.

Never heard of Father's day until after I left home.

Didn't someone try to get this off the ground a few years back? I remember my DIL sending me a 'Happy Granny/Nannie Day' card one year when my oldest grandson was a baby (he's 13 now). I told her not to spend her money....just another money making scam for someone....a thank you is nice and all I need....there's already Mothers Day/Fathers Day...l've suggested that my sons buy flowers the week before Mother's Day as the price goes up so much but they won't. Granny Day would be yet another rip off xx

I do appreciate a call or message. I love the cards the grandchildren have made if they are around, I laugh at the bought cards in the post which are always funny/mischievous. I smile at the flowers if one of them comes around but wish they wouldn’t buy oddly assorted exotics costing an arm and a leg, and any surprise gift is wonderful. Little arms of DGC giving me a hug and allowing me a kiss and cuddle are what I love the most but that can be any day of the year and I have no particular expectations on Mothering Sunday. Any day is Granny Day if we are lucky enough to have and see DGCs and I hate the idea of a designated day for shops to use to exploit us.

No more excuses to line the pockets of capitalists please - the whole card and present rigmarole is a nightmare - family who appreciate grannies don't need to be told they have to perform with gifts on any particular day, and those who don't appreciate grannies will probably take no notice of an official granny day anyway. We need to be moving away from the commercialism associated with these events not adding to it.

Absolute no from me too. I remember as a child going to Sunday school and being given a little posy of flowers to take home to my mother on Mothering Sunday, a simple delight for her and me. While I really appreciate a card, phone call or text which I usually get on Mothers Day I don't expect an expensive gift, flowers or to be taken out for a meal, as they live some considerable distance from me that would be quite difficult. I dislike all the consumerism around giving now and can hardly believe the expectations, even demands made by some.

Muffinthemoo
It's ok don't be sorry your intitled to your comments?

Nope to another money grabbing day set up by the card companys. Granny day indeed really!

For me, Granny Day (sometimes known as Hudson Day) is Tuesday (aka Library Day) or Friday (aka Splash Time Day) when my youngest grandson spends his entire day with me. I like it. So does he.

Tuesdays & Thursdays are grandparent days in this house already.....