The origin of Mother's Day

In UK Mother’s Day  is the fourth Sunday of Lent so it is the second of March or  early April. In the United States and other countries, Mother's Day is observed on the second Sunday in May. It is recognized as a holiday to honor mothers and it is typically observed by presenting cards, flowers, and gifts to the mothers and influential women in our lives.

Celebrations honoring mothers date back to the ancient Greeks and Romans who held festivals in honor of the mother goddesses.

Forms of Mother's Day are celebrated all over the world. The American Mother's Day holiday can be traced back to Anna Jarvis. Ms. Jarvis began her campaign to recognize the sacrifices of mothers for their families following her own mother's death in 1905.

Jarvis wrote letters to newspapers and politicians, urging them to recognize Mother's Day as a national holiday. She saw her dream realized in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson officially established the second Sunday in May as a nationally-recognized holiday, Mother's Day.

It didn't take long for Anna Jarvis to become completely disillusioned by the holiday, however. She didn't like the way the greeting card and floral industries commercialized the day. By ​1920, she began urging people to quit buying cards and flowers. Jarvis became as active in campaigning to have the holiday dissolved as she had been in seeing it established, even using her own money to fight legal battles involving the use of the name Mother's Day.