To think that Mother's Day is fine and dandy but to think Father's Day is a load of commercial poo poo

[Tinker]

Never really bothered with Father's Day as a child and didn't have to worry about it whilst a single mother but now have a 2-year old and am still with her dad....

Why is mothe's day fine, but not father's day?

IMHO, I think they are both as bad as each other

Mother's Day is based on a genuine religious festival - Mothering Sunday. But father's Day is invented by the card industry - someone will need to back me up on that though.

Well, yes, of course they are really but obviously I rather like to have breakfast in bed and licence to not do a tap all day (as opposed to appear to do a tap)

I back you up bobsmum

I'm with jofeb. I think they're both a load of shylocks

Having said that, Dh was great on Mothers Day this year and I had a lovely day. But he is very very keen to have an equivalent day out/in just for him to put his feet up. He has that quite a lot though IMO - called "Saturday" and "Sunday"|

backs up bobsmum, but with the proviso that if you want to celebrate mothering Sunday, yer afta go back to church after breakfast in bed.

Mothering Sunday a holy day tied up with Easter. All the other ones are commercial rubbish.

both a load of commercial crock.

Yes bmum, it is to do with religious festival but isn't it something to do with your mother church rather than your mum?

Someone knowledgeable come and tell us!

I think it was just a holiday to allow those working a long way from their birth family time off to go and see their mothers.

when is father's day anyway?

I always dreaded it, because I had a stepfather (whom we were forced to call Dad) and a dad, and it was always a horrible squirmy nightmare trying to get it right and not offend anyone (well, it was impossible, actually)

I always make a fuss about it for dh though, he is the world's best father and I love having an excuse to make a fuss of him.

Yes - the idea of Mothering Sunday is that children who had moved away from home to work ie servants etc, would return home to their Mother Chruch where they grew up. Eventually that became part of going to see their mums and bringing a gift/flowers on the way. \

But I'm not 100% on the Father's Day thing being totally fabricated - maybe just 99% sure

ah thank you, bobbers

I thought Mothers day was based on when girls were sent away from home to work. the one day off they were allowed was Mothering Sunday, so they could go and visit their mothers.

Agree Fathers Day is load of commercial twaddle

Can't do the link, but paste this in!

www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/ holydays/motheringsunday_1.shtml

ah thank you, bobbers

Hate Fathers Day. I never know whether to bother or not. Dad insists its commercial Americanised rubbish but was so chuffed the first year I remembered that I sort of feel obliged. DH also says its commercial American rubbish but sulked for 48 hrs when I didn't bother a few years ago

Wikipedia on Mothering Sunday

so good I said it twice

Mothers day is on a different day in the US, too. Completely different and unrelated to mothering Sunday in the UK. In the US, I think it was started by a presidents wife.

here you go

YANBU
DH likes it though so i bow to pressure and let the DC do a homemade card.

But Wikipedia says differently about Fathers Day origins here

SCroll down to the German version - sounds great!

Pointers

Aye, and we don't celebrate grandparents day here, neither.