14th September 09 : Shemrock students celebrated ‘Grandparents Day’ at its premises in sector – 69, Mohali.The tiny toddlers celebrated this day with traditional fervour and excitement. The student has invited their grandparents with beautiful hand made cards. They honored them with garland tilak and asked for blessings by touching their feet’s. The grandparents, who were deeply touched with this gesture in turn, embraced the little ones with warmly.
The principal, Air Cmde S.K. Sharma said that blind aping of the west and the influence of western culture and pursuit of accadmics had made the children of today move away from traditional valves. Observance of day like ‘Grandparents Day’ helps to revive our deep-rooted culture and moral values. It helps in bringing the younger and senior generations together on a common platform.
The children put up a beautiful show singing Songs ‘dadi amma dadi amma man jayo’ ‘Grand maa Grand paa I love you’. The senior generation was deeply moved by this expression of love and simplicity and found it hard to fight back their tears. The children danced and sang great joy and enthusiasm, thus enthralling the audience, who showered blessing upon their little ones. The grandparents felt that the celebration had bought back fond memories of their childhood. They thoroughly enjoyed enlightening the children on certain issues and were happy to answer their various queries.
The principal felt that the celebration provided the much needed relief from the burden of books and provided an occasion to honour the senior generation.
This was wonderful 🙂 thank you for sharing. On National Grandparents Day Sunday Sept 13th 2009, we have launched Grandchild Connection, a service that strengthens the bond between grandparents and grandchildren. Grandchild Connection allows distant grandparents and grandchildren to develop close, meaningful relationships by utilizing today’s technology of video conferencing. As part of the “VideoVisit” experience, we coach grandparents in educational and social activities that enhance the bonds they share with their grandchildren, and we provide the tools to achieve that end. We have launched our website today, National Grandparents Day, September 13th, 2009