Learn About Mother’s Day

you don’t have anything nice to say
don’t say anything at all if everyone
else were jumping off a cliff would you
do it too we’ve all heard these words of
wisdom from her mother’s at one time or
another and today is the day to thank
her hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re wishing
all you moms out there happy Mother’s
Day celebrating mothers and their
contribution to society is a relatively
recent phenomenon at least in North
America ancient cultures pay tribute to
Mother’s likening them two goddesses
today mother’s day is celebrated on
different days in different countries in
the united kingdom mothering sunday
falls on the fourth Sunday during Lent
the day most commonly used throughout
the world however is the second Sunday
in May mothering sunday in britain did
not originate as a celebration of
motherhood but as a religious occasion
during Lent children mainly daughters
were given a day off to visit their
mothers and family daughters who were in
a domestic service use this day to show
their mothers their skills usually by
baking them a signal cake also people
would return to mother church for a
special service on that fourth Sunday
during Lent today it is primarily used
to give thanks for Mother’s although
some churches in Britain’s still
recognize it as a religious day with
mothering sunday as a precursor to
American Mother’s Day the event was
founded in the United States in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries and it was arguably founded by
two different women the first Julia Ward
Howe prompted a Mother’s Day for peace
to be held on jun 2nd 1872 it was
planned as a way to unite women against
war by the next year women were
celebrating in 18 cities across the u.s.
celebrations continued in Boston for
another 10 years being funded by how
until she stopped subsidizing the event
it eventually phased out in 1905 a woman
named Anna Jarvis decided to follow the
dream of her recently deceased mother to
create a national day to honor mothers
by 1912 after much lobbying Jarvis’s
home state of West Virginia adopted an
official mother’s day and two years
later US Congress established a national
Mother’s Day the same one we know today
today celebrations of Mother’s Day often
have children making breakfast for their
mothers buying flowers gifts or candy
and of course a greeting card more phone
calls are made on Mother’s Day in the
u.s. than any other day of the year and
it is also the busiest day of the year
for restaurants