Mother's day confusion!

[DM1209]

Can someone please explain why we are having 2 mothers days this year?

We celebrated on March 22nd so where has today come from?

Thank you.

I think it's americas mothers day today

It's the American mothers day.

It's in Australia at this time of year.

Today is Mother's Day is America and Australia. Probably a few other countries also

It is also mothers’ day in Aus, NZ and South Africa.

Different countries celebrate it on different dates. Where have you seen this? Have you picked this up from another country?

I've not seen anything about a Mother's Day in the UK today.

Most of the world celebrate mother's day on the second Sunday in may. In the UK and a few other countries it is celebrated on the 4th Sunday in Lent. There is always two mother's days.

I'm in Australia enjoying mother's day. My son in the UK hasn't called yet.

Other countries celebrate Mothers Day today.

The rest of the world celebrates Mother’s Day later than the UK. I thought everyone knew this?

Google would have been better than AIBU....

Thank you lovely people. I had a complete panic thinking I'd missed some new announcement or something and made a colossal cock up!

Phew.

Google is your friend OP.

In the UK we have Mothering Sunday, which is not quite the same thing as the Mothers Day celebrated in the USA and elsewhere.

Mothering Sunday is a religious holiday, always on the 4th Sunday in Lent. This year it was on the 22nd of March.

Mothers Day is a secular, made-up celebration, just like Fathers Day, Grandparents Day, Secretaries Day etc. Mothers Day is always the first Sunday in May.

We don't actually have a mother's day in the UK, we have 'Mothering Sunday' which has nothing to do with mothers but 'mother church'.

Lots of places have a mother's day in May, as already said the US, Austalia and New Zealand it is today, France is later in May and derives from, I think, the Greek mother of gods.

We also have world book day on a different date.