September Is National Grandparents Month

September is National Grandparents Month, and if you still have your grandparents or are grandparents yourselves, you know what an important role they play in our families.

Here are some interesting grandparents' facts according to grandparents.com:

"Fact: Today, there are 70 million grandparents in the nation.

Grandparents represent one-third of the population with 1.7 million new grandparents added to the ranks every year.

Grandparents lead 37% of all U.S. households in this country — that's 44 million households nationwide. And that number is increasing at twice the average annual rate of U.S. households overall — with the number to hit 50 million by 2015.

Fact: Grandparents love being grandparents.

72% think being a grandparent is the single most important and satisfying thing in their life.

90% enjoy talking about their grandkids to just about everyone

Fact: they are younger than ever before.

43% became grandparents in their fifties, 37% in their forties, with the average age of grandparents in this country at 48."