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?

I don’t remember being 5 let alone have with 100% conviction in my present day knowledge of my actions to events that I didn’t factually go through.

It wasn't a terrible tragedy it was a trauma abd many people have them, they always have had all the wat back through history.

With respect all the therapy Prince Harry had has done nothing helpfull for him and his Trauma, he hasld millions offer condolences, his grandparents take him out the week his mother died exercising, sometimes nothing others do is enough, you have to sort yourself out.

The nation's mental health, narcissism and unhappiness especially for young girls is at an all time high. I don't think the cult of Freud has achieved much positively at all. It's reverse confession - anti Moses - Freud described himself as. For a nation who is populated in the majority by people who think the meaning of life is for them to be personally happy - they aren't.

They are trying not to upset and include the children who have lost their mum or don't see there mum for whatever reason. If you want a mother's day card let kids make you one at home issue solved.

Are you on acid? Why else are you making connections between things that have nothing to do with each other?

The nation's mental health, narcissism and unhappiness especially for young girls is at an all time high. I don't think the cult of Freud has achieved much positively at all. It's reverse confession - anti Moses - Freud described himself as. For a nation who is populated in the majority by people who think the meaning of life is for them to be personally happy - they aren't.

Are you saying that being kind to small children will give them poor mental health in later life?

There is being kind and there is over indulgence. I have already said this.

Prince Harry in my opinion is an example of over indulgence, too much walking in egg shells by many, when he suffered a trauma, it has done him no favours in my opinion.

Why do you keep bringing up Prince Harry when he has zero to do with this?

You think that calling the day something different in school is being over indulgent?

Absolutely this, and so sorry for your loss

We are to apparently cancel Mother's day for children who lost a mother, and hide any joy and hide away, which is why Prince Harry says he is the way he is because his Mother died and he is 40 and still sad about it (understandable) and we are all somehow still supposed to be walking on egg shells for him 25 years later.

Well.. small enough place for them all to know all about their neighbour.
You can celebrate what you want, I will celebrate Mother's Day.

No one is cancelling mothers day or in any other way stopping people from celebrating it.

I’m also celebrating Mother’s Day on Sunday with my 2 children. That’s not the issue.

I dunno, I lost my dad very young a and found 'make a Father's Day card' at school very very hard. I think I would have appreciated the thought to frame it in another way.

Who is cancelling Mothers Day?

Are you on the right thread?

If your kid wants to make you a Mother's Day card then they can. If they want to wish you Happy Mother's Day then they can. The shops are FULL of Mother's Day stuff.

The are cancelling it for children who lost a mother because there is nobody for them to celebrate.

Prince Harry is not the only person who has ever lost a parent; FFS.

If mothers day is too sensitive, why continue to celebrate anything at all?

Either celebrate it or don't. This fudged bollocks is worse.

Nobody is stopping you from celebrating Mother's Day, not one person has said they are.

I agree. Family life differs greatly child to child in my school. We have children whose Mum's have died, who don't see their Mum, who are in foster care, who live with grandparents or other family members, who have two Dad's and lots of other variations of family life.

Mother's Day should remain Mother's Day.

In school they should be trained and capable of being empathetic to those who don't have a mother or a good relationship with theirs, and ask them to make a card or whatever they are doing for someone special in their life.

Not insane.

I'd assume it indicates that there is one or more children in the school in a situation where a public celebration of mother's day will cause distress e.g. recently bereaved, care proceedings.

I bet they haven't chosen this for no reason.

Roughly one child in every class will have lost a parent. Being sensitive is just a nice thing to do, particularly when so many kids lost parents over the past 3 years

My resilience isn't the question, it is the resilience of possibly very young children. Why would you even know why a teacher was getting kids to make cards for a special person, why would you assume it was to do with you? All about you isn't it.

No one is cancelling Mother's Day or Mothering Sunday, it happens on a Sunday and schools aren't open.

As much as on the surface this gives me the rage, I am also struggling with our Father's Day this weekend ( not in uk). My daughters best friend (5) lost her dad exactly a year ago . Our school is sweet, small and traditional. The performance about fathers day presents and the day is wonderful for my husband, but my heart aches for this little girl. I wish they would call it something different and make presents for the special person in their life - daddy or other. As parents we'll easily cope, but as a human I don't like to cause these little people anymore distress than they need .

In my Ds primary class...there were four children who'd lost a parent. Three had lost their father and one lost their mother. It was an unusually high number. So sad.