Mother's Day 2022.
Hello Everyone My Name is Vivek Chaturvedi. I am writing a blog about Mother's Day 2022.
It is celebrated on 09 May, 2022. Almost all the country celebrates Mother’s Day like a festival. But have you ever thought when was first Mother’s Day celebrated, who celebrated it, how it was celebrated? What is the history behind the celebration? Let us have a look!
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on different days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. It complements similar celebrations, largely pushed by commercial interests, honoring family members, such as Father's Day, Siblings Day, and Grandparents' Day.
While some countries have a multi-century history of a day to celebrate mothers, the modern American version of the holiday began in the United States in the early 20th century at the initiative of Anna Jarvis, who organized the first Mother's Day service of worship and celebration at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia, which serves as the International Mother's Day Shrine today. It is not directly related to the many traditional celebrations of mothers and motherhood that have existed throughout the world over thousands of years, such as the Greek cult to Cybele, the mother deity Rhea, the Roman festival of Hilaria, or the other Christian ecclesiastical Mothering Sunday celebration. However, in some countries, Mother's Day is still synonymous with these older traditions.
The American version of Mother's Day has been criticized for having become too commercialized. Jarvis herself, who began the celebration as a liturgical observance, regretted this commercialism and expressed that this was never her intention. In response, Constance Adelaide Smith successfully advocated for Mothering Sunday as a commemoration of a broader definition of motherhood in many other parts of the English-speaking world.
Mother's Day 2022 History
It is said that a young Appalachian homemaker namely Ann Jarvis in 1858, organised "Mother's Work Days" to improve the facility of sanitation and the deaths that were caused due to insects and seepage of the polluted water.
Further, over a century ago, women's suffragist, a Boston poet Julia Ward Howe established a special day for mothers and for peace that was somewhere missing after the bloody Franco-Prussian War.
After unsuccessful efforts, she started thinking globally and at an international pacifist conference after the Franco-Prussian War, she made a global appeal to women.
During the war itself she wrote, she keenly felt the "cruel and unnecessary character of the contest". She believed that as any woman might it could have been settled without bloodshed. Also, she always wondered why women or mothers are not putting their voice together in these matters to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost.
However, that time Mother's Day voice for advocating peace was successful in Boston but after several years eventually lost popularity and disappeared from the minds of the people in the years preceding World War I.
Then, Ann Jarvis who is also famous as "Mother Jarvis" was a community health advocate. During the Civil War, she organised Women's brigades, asked her workers to help mothers and what they can do best for them. Not only this she had also organised various Mother's Day clubs that addressed child rearing and public health issues. In 1868, she took an initiative to heal the problems between her Confederate and Union Neighbours.
Anna Jarvis, daughter of Jarvis in 1878 at the age of twelve listened to her mother teaching Sunday school lesson on mothers in the bible. The senior Jarvis said that she hopes that "someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother's day". Further, she said that "there are many days for men, but none for mothers".
After the death of Ann Jarvis in 1905, her daughter Anna campaigned for a national observance holiday in honour of her mother. Who had made several contributions in improving health issues etc. for women. Therefore, Anna Jarvis wanted to commemorate her and the work of all mothers.
Anna Jarvis wrote several letters to President William Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1907 May, at the Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, the place where Anna Jarvis mother had taught arranged Mother's Day service on the second Sunday of May. Also, the same service was organised at the Wannamaker Philadelphia merchant Auditorium and it was completely full of 15,000 people who showed interest.
In 45 states with Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico and Canada this custom spread to churches. In 1912, the Governor of West Virginia proclaimed Mother's Day and in 1913, Pennsylvania's Governor also did the same. In the US in 1914, it became an official holiday when president Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a day to pay honour to the motherhood, to express the love and affection for the mothers of our country who had given us life to live on this beautiful planet.
However, the contributions of women can never be forgotten as it nourishes our family, she is the person who takes care of everything at home and even outside. No doubt her job is 24x7. Perhaps there are multiple ways to give tribute to the mothers and not only this day but we should respect them every day, every year and years. She should get respect in our society and we all should think about it.
Celebrations
On this day, children usually buy gifts, throw parties and do things for their mothers to show them their love, respect and appreciation. Usually mothers are relieved of all their duties and allowed to rest as the rest of the family takes on their duties. And given that the workload of moms may have tripled amid the coronavirus lockdown, this opportunity should be taken to make sure our mothers, who play makeshift teachers, cooks, doctors, counsellors, friends, and take on any role that is required of them, are treated like queens, even if just for a day.
Mother's day Poem
Oh Mom Oh Mom! You Work So Hard
But Never Get Any Reward!!
You Expect Nothing
But Do Everything!!
You Are So Selfless
And This Is Your Greatness!!
Whenever I Feel Hungry,
You First Serve Me Food and Other Things Are Secondary!!
You Never Show Your Pain
But Always Make An Effort To Make Me Happy And Never Complain!!
You Spend So Many Sleepless Nights
And You Always Being So Polite!!
You Understand the Sorrow Behind My Smile
Today, I want To Tell You That You Are So Versatile!!
You Are Never On Leave
But The
Attention You Deserve, Never Receive!!
Sometimes, I Neglect You
But I Love You And That's So True !!
Mom, Its You And Only You,
There Is Nobody Like You!!
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