{"id":3039,"date":"2021-05-10T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2021-05-10T07:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T20:58:03","slug":"why-is-mothers-day-celebrated-and-how-did-it-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-is-mothers-day-celebrated-and-how-did-it-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Mother’s Day celebrated, and how did it start?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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1. Mother’s Day is celebrated to honour motherhood and is observed in different parts of the world on\u00a0<\/span>different days\/dates<\/span><\/a>\u2014but the most number of countries celebrate it on the 2nd Sunday of May.<\/span><\/li>\n
2. Celebrations of motherhood can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, but the modern Mother’s Day began in the US in the early 1900s.<\/span><\/li>\n
3. A woman named Anna Jarvis started a campaign for an official day honouring mothers in 1905, the year her mother died.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
4. Anna’s mother was one of the peace activists promoting Mother’s Peace Day since the 1870s.<\/span><\/li>\n
5. The promoters of Mother’s Peace Day (the 1870s) wanted to promote global unity after the horrors of the American Civil War<\/a> and Europe’s Franco-Prussian War.<\/span><\/li>\n
6. They wanted mothers of all nationalities to come together and promote the peaceful settlement of international issues.<\/span><\/li>\n
7. Anna Jarvis wanted to honour the sacrifices made by the mothers.<\/span><\/li>\n
8. After three years of her campaign, a Philadelphia department store owner financed her, and Anna Jarvis organised a public memorial for her mother in her hometown in 1908.<\/span><\/li>\n
9. It was a huge success, and Anna Jarvis\u2014who remained unmarried and childless her whole life\u2014resolved to see Mother’s Day added to the national calendar.<\/span><\/li>\n
10. But the US Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother’s Day an official holiday, joking that they would also have to proclaim a “Mother-in-law’s<\/a> Day”.<\/span><\/li>\n
11. Despite no official recognition, the popularity of the day continued to surge over the next few years\u2014more and more states around the US started celebrating it.<\/span><\/li>\n
12. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation making Mother’s Day an official holiday, to take place the 2nd Sunday of May.<\/span><\/li>\n
13. When Anna was lobbying to make this day an official holiday, she had teamed up with florists, recommending a {tooltip}white carnation{end-text}Later, the custom developed of wearing a red or pink carnation to represent a living mother or a white carnation for a mother who was deceased.{end-tooltip} as the symbolic flower of Mother’s Day.<\/span><\/li>\n
14. Soon, she realised florists, candy-makers and card-makers, and even charities were using Mother’s Day as a way to make extra money.<\/span><\/li>\n
15. She was very upset with this commercialisation and spent the last few years of her life organising boycotts<\/a> of the Mother’s Day celebrations.<\/span><\/li>\n
16. She was once arrested for disturbing the peace when she misbehaved with vendors trying to sell carnations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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