My child’s school have changed the name of Mother’s Day to special persons day, what do you think?

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Have we gone mad or is this appropriate?

As long as they do the same on Father’s Day

But you don't celebrate the day at school. You spend the art session making a card. Then you celebrate at home. Just let your kids buy a shop card if you disapprove on school not insisting it says Mom on it. If rephrasing the topic "today we'll be making..." makes it easier on a little kid and will have no discernible impact on every other kid, who will still celebrate Mothers Day with you several days later, why wouldn't you be kind instead of actively choosing not to be.

You have completely twisted my words, you aren't in good faith at all.

Some teachers are activist teachers, ttheywill include those who have an ideological belief that women are breeders.

I am surprised someone hasn't come for Geoffrey Chaucer and cancelled The Parson's tale, they don't seem to like being told envy is unhealthy and they want to make every one equal in misery.

They did.

Wow I really opened a can of worms with this thread. I would just like to say that after all this my dear daughter has decided that she now wants to spend Mother’s Day at her dads as I’m the worst mother in the world for asking her to tidy away her toys. She has a stinking cold so I’m tempted to let her go! 😂

I did ask her what she thought special person day meant and she just ran off and flooded the bathroom trying to water her plant beavers gave her to grow. Its got no chance of sprouting. So yeah she seems pretty traumatised to have had to cope with the ordeal of the mothers day to special persons day name change.

It's not a bad thing. As someone who lost their mother at a young age is soul destroying having to be taken out of the class so everyone can make a card for their mums. Especially when you hear the TA saying which is the child with the dead mum (but that's another story!!)

OP has already said Yes the last Father’s Day was special person day also.

You're words are appalling. There's no need to twist them.

Your words - sorry.

How can it be because of the ideological belief that women are breeders when it was done for Father's Day first?

Highly offensive

@LittleFingerStrength I don't think you answered my earlier question. Do you think women who have had a pregnancy loss should be put on a ward with post natal women and their babies? If they object are they horrible envious people who can't be happy for others?

Why?

I generally avoid making cards with my class for things such as Mothering Sunday or Father's Day but this year one of the members of staff brought in daffodils for every child to take home for Sunday.

I spoke to the two children in my class who have no contact with their mums, explained about the tradition of Mothering Sunday and how working children would often be given the day off to visit their childhood church or 'Mother Church' (cathedral) with their family. I explained that picking flowers on the journey home was often part of that which was where the idea of giving flowers came from, hence today's flowers. The children were really interested in hearing about the traditions and the idea of 'Mothering' not being about mums per se. One of them chose to take the daffodils with the 'for Mother's Day' label to give to their carer, the other was keen to give the flowers to Dad (minus the tag) because Dad's the one who does the mothering in their family. They were both happy with their decisions and later in the day I heard the second of the two explaining to another adult about Mothering Sunday traditions and why Dad should be given daffodils.

Ffs

Maybe there has been a child in the school who's mother has passed away and they are trying to be sensitive. Our school did something similar last year for father's Day.

Let's cancel Christmas while we are at it, because not everyone is Christian!
SHEESH

I would have much preferred that

Oh dear 😂

I have already said that I am sorry for you.

I like everyone else on this earth, we all have had terrible things happen to us. No sympathy is wrong as us over Indulgence.

I don't expect everyone to walk on egg shells because I was with my Mother when she had a fit, hemoraged and delivered later a seven month old dead baby when I was 8? I wouldn't dream of the entitled selfishness some think they are obliged by unpaid fellow humans, who don't famcy taking on you and your particular trauma. Many people do good works, they like to pick who they do them for themselves.

It doesn't though, because these things are flagged on the system and the appropriate carer/guardian is approached to attend. Schools are well versed in managing these things.

No one is cancelling mothers day, it still happens.

I don't expect everyone to walk on egg shells because I was with my Mother when she had a fit, hemoraged and delivered later a seven month old dead baby when I was 8?

I'd happily walk on eggshells to protect a childs feelings

So you would have been perfectly fine if two weeks later the school had forced you to make a card "to my baby brother/sister"?

@LittleFingerStrength you are talking in the present tense. “You don’t think people should walk on egg shells”. Don’t you mean ‘you didn’t think’? Did you have this same belief when you were 8 years old, did people treat you without empathy and that has effected your present day views.