Mother Day

Mother’s Day can be traced to the times of ancient Greece when tribute was paid to ‘Rhea’ the mother of gods. The next recorded tribute to mothers was during the 17 th century when England celebrated ‘Mothering Sunday’ on the fourth Sunday of Lent. In America Julia Ward Howe, the author of ‘The Battle of Hymn of the Republic’, suggested the idea of Mother’s Day in 1872. However it is Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia who is credited with creating Mother’s Day in 1905. In 1910. West Virginia became the first state in the USA to adopt at formal holiday to recognize mothers. A year later nearly every state officially marked the day of celebration. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mother’s Day as a national holiday to be the Second Sunday of May.

Today Mother’s Day is celebrated throughout the world on different days. The USA, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Belgium and Bangladesh celebrate the day on the second Sunday in May. While the UK and some other countries do it on the fourth Sunday of Lint.

On this day, mothers are honoured by dining out, giving flowers, sending cards and giving gifts.

The celebration of Mothers Day should be every day. Mothers are the persons who nurture us, teach us, protect us and make us feel we matter. They are the people in our lives who are most responsible for the way we grow