This year, Mother’s Day is celebrated today, May 12. Every year, on the second Sunday in May, Mother’s Day is celebrated worldwide to honor our mothers. This year, tomorrow, May 12, Mother’s Day will be celebrated. It’s a special day for all mothers, whose contributions are often overlooked.
It is a day to recognize the unquantifiable and selfless contributions of each mother to the success of her children. It is also a day to thank Him for that. On this day, children, partners, and other family members show their love and gratitude to their mother by giving her gifts, cards, and other nice things. Now, as we celebrate Mother’s Day, here’s how the day started, why it’s celebrated on the second Sunday in May, and why its founder ended up regretting it.
How Mother’s Day came about
Mother’s Day was a timeless tribute to Anna Jarvis’s mother after she died in 1905. According to the Keynote USA, on the second anniversary of her mother’s death, Anna Jarvis bought 500 white carnations for a memorial service she organized in his hometown of West Virginia. She campaigned for Mother’s Day to be a recognized holiday in the US after her mother Ann Reeves Jarvis, a peace activist, died in 1905. Ann Jarvis tended to wounded soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War and created Mother’s Day Work Clubs to address people’s problems. health problems.
To honor her mother by continuing the work she started, she campaigned to set aside a day to honor all mothers, as she believed that a mother is “the person who has done more for you than anyone else in the world.” As a result, she held the first formal Mother’s Day celebration in Grafton, West Virginia, in May 1908, three years after her mother’s death.
Why Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May each year
Soon after, it became a full-fledged movement, and Jarvis and his friends wrote to prominent figures in the United States to demand that the day be declared a national holiday. By 1911, it had spread to every state in the country. Finally, in 1914, then-US President Woodrow Wilson declared that the second Sunday in May would be celebrated as Mother’s Day.
Now, every second Sunday in May, we celebrate Mother’s Day to honor our mothers. This day serves as a reminder to express gratitude for the countless sacrifices mothers make, often behind the scenes, to ensure the well-being and happiness of their families.
A day to honor all maternal figures
Mother’s Day also serves as a broader cultural celebration of the importance of maternal figures in society. This day is celebrated not only to honor birth mothers but also grandmothers, stepmothers, adoptive mothers, and other maternal figures who have had a positive impact on the lives of others.
How to celebrate Mother’s Day?
On Mother’s Day, family members try to make sure their mother is happy and enjoying her life. They surprise her with gifts invite her to dinner or even cook for her at home. Mother’s Day has also become a retail phenomenon, with retailers offering gifts and experiences to help people express their appreciation for their mothers.
Story of Anna Jarvis, the woman who regretted having created Mother’s Day
This commercialization of the day so horrified the day’s founder that she regretted starting Mother’s Day and spent the rest of her life campaigning for it to be rescinded, the Keynote USA reported. Anna Jarvis’s campaign to celebrate a special day for mothers was one she inherited from her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis. She was very intentional with the name of her vacation. It’s Mother’s Day, like a mom. As Ms. Jarvis put it, Mother’s Day is a day to honor “the best mother who ever lived, yours.”
However, Mother’s Day became very popular. In the early 1920s, card companies began selling Mother’s Day cards. But Anna Jarvis believed that this commercialization of the day exploited the idea of Mother’s Day. She couldn’t stand the thought of people spending so much money on extravagant flower arrangements, cheesy greeting cards, and overpriced chocolates.
While others benefited from the day, Anna Jarvis’s efforts to hold on to the day’s original meaning led to her financial difficulties. She spent every penny fighting the commercialization of Mother’s Day. She died of heart failure in November 1948.
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