Grandparents Day in Taiwan

Family is the source of social stability and ethics is an indispensable condition for family harmony. In modern society, the function of grandparents in the family is becoming more and more prominent and has become a part of family ethics that cannot be ignored. We must take the role and status of grandparents in the family seriously, and the second-generation family ethics of "father's kindness and son's filial piety" can be further expanded. From the point of view of family education, how to establish a good intergenerational interaction is more and more important in the modern society under the change of family structure.

According to the results of the "Intergenerational Interaction Survey" published by the Department of Adult and Continuing Education of National Chung Cheng University in 1999, 80.1% of grandparents could remember the names of their grandchildren clearly, but only 36.8% of grandchildren knew their grandparents' names clearly. While 39.3% of grandparents remembered their grandchildren's birthdays clearly, only 5.8% of grandchildren remembered their grandparents' birthdays clearly, showing that the modern grandparent-grandchild relationship really needs to be strengthened.

Family is the foundation for intergenerational interaction, and interaction with grandparents is an important experience for the younger generation to interact with the elderly. "Through the planning of various educational activities, the Grandparents' Day encourages young people to interact with their grandparents and other elders. Through these interactions, positive attitudes toward "the elderly" and "aging" are established, ageist prejudices are reversed, and the contribution of elders to families and society is emphasized, as well as the positive significance of intergenerational reciprocity and inheritance, building a bridge between generations through "education".