Universidad Europea de Madrid

Mother's Day

You're a mother ! Did your off-spring call you or send you flowers or pay attention to you on Mother's Day?

You may not be a mother, but you have a mother or had a mother, step-mother, grandmother, substitute mother--someone who helped you become who you are today. Did you contact that person on Sunday?

Mother's Day, in Spain, is the first Sunday in May. This year it was May 4th. The restaurants were full of families and the florists, nurseries and flower stands were busy. Mother's Day seem to be one of the few holidays that no one resents though it is just as commercial as Valentine's Day or any of the others.

And in the US? Here's the story.

Wendy

Congress approved the holiday in the United States in 1914. They set the date as the second Sunday in May each year. The idea for a day to honor mother started in Britain and was picked up by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 after the American Civil War, not to honor mothers, but to unite mothers in a protest against war. Her daughter continued calling for the holiday and a Mother's Day was celebrated in West Virginia in 1908. The holiday spread from state to state and after 45 states had approved it, President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day in 1914. It was a day to show a flag in honor of mothers who had lost sons in war, not really the holiday we celebrate today honoring mother for being mother. It is a commercial success today as the busiest day of the year for restaurants, and sets records for florists ...

Ralph & Terry Kovel

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