Mothers Day should be banned

[DinnaeFashYersel]

Thread after thread on here with Mothers Day drama and grief

Partners who haven't made any plans
Partners whose plans aren't WOW enough
Mothers v MILs
Mothers v Mothers and MILS
Partner isn't making plans for mother of unborn baby
Blended family dramas
The list goes on and on

Post Mothers Day will have the threads

He forgot
It was rubbish compared to the elaborate day he got for Fathers Day
MIL spoiled it
Etc

Its not worth it. It seems to be make so many people unhappy and angry and we'd be better off without.

YABU: its a cherished and important day, how dare you even ask
YANBU: ban it and save us all from the grief and drama

Full disclosure: I celebrate it to the extent that my kids will serve me tea and (burnt) toast in bed. Otherwise its a normal day. And of course I know it won't actually be banned. Its just a discussion.

Not many people knew abot it and it was only hyper adverts that go people going

next it will be Step-dad, step-dad-5-6-7-8-9 day

@DistinguishedSocialCommentator I don't think I have ever seen an advert for Father's Day beyond the sign in the card shops/supermarkets above the card stand. However I remember making Father's Day cards in the 80s.
Cards that say to "step dad" or "you're like a dad to me" or "grandad" etc have also been sold for donkeys years if people choose to give cards to their step dad or grandad on Father's Day.
It's not "new".

Was your ex also your son? If not, that would explain why he didn’t get you anything for Mother’s Day

Inconsiderate lazy selfish men should be banned

It's not mother's day that's the problem

A good mum should just keep quiet eh?

From wikipediaMothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches,[1] the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages[2] in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On Mothering Sunday, Christians have historically visited their mother church—the church in which they received the sacrament of baptism.[1][3]
Constance Adelaide Smith revived its modern observance beginning in 1913 to honour Mother Church, 'mothers of earthly homes', the Virgin Mary (mother of Jesus), and Mother Nature.[4] It gained popularity in response to the originally American Mother's Day.[5] The holiday is often known as "Mother's Day" in the United Kingdom, and has become a secular celebration of mothers and motherhood.
So it's both a festival of Christian origin AND something made more secular (since 1913) and imitating the US 'Mothers' Day' which already existed.
Whether you celebrate it or not should be entirely up to you. And if you do celebrate, how you do should also e entirely up to you. Whatmany peole don't seem to realise is that businesses will do everything they can to produce products or services to get peole to spend money. After all, that's what a 'business' is. te sad thing is when people feel obliged to partcipate in an ever incresing spiral of spending, esp when they can't afford to. In my opinion. So, I would agree with 'banning' it for peole who can't cope with it.

Thank you - there are adverts and recently get grandparent cards - but I was not aware its been around for so long - I guess we've all been busy working etc - mothers days has been around forever since I can recall but not the others

More threads today filled with anger, fury and upset all about Mother's Day.

And? It’s the same way about V-Day and Christmas threads are like that for at least a month before and also weeks after.

@DinnaeFashYersel most of that would go away if adults actually opened their mouths and talked to each other about what they want/enjoy/expect/dislike/don't care/don't want about these occasions that happen in life.

@phoenixrosehere I agree. But somehow the Hallmark Holidays make it seem more pathetic/ tragic when they are so meaningless.

It's not meaningless for people who give it meaning and get joy out of it

What sad nation of mums we have become, cherish your children, be thankful they are well, there are plenty of mums who might not have their children anymore, children are a gift anyway

It was hijacked by commercialism, like Christmas, but it is a Christian Festival. It is Mothering Sunday rather than Mothers Day. It takes place half-way through Lent and is also called Refreshment Sunday. It was the day people returned to their Mother Church. Also people in service could visit their Mother that day, often taking a Simnel cake.

It's the one day of 2 (my birthday being the other one) when I get breakfast in bed. Coffee and toast, and a card if DS has remembered. If he hasn't, I dig out the one from the previous year and put it on the mantle shelf. It's not about spending loads of making big gestures, but I do enjoy my coffee and toast!

There’s daily posts moaning about men and step children, and teenagers, and and and and……. If it annoys
you skim past them

Agree.

I don’t mind MD, and I get to celebrate it how I like. I’m not bothered about how others celebrate it or don’t nor think it’s tragic or pathetic. Mother’s Day and giving cards and presents, special meals and whatnot has been around for decades.

I also think blaming SM is a bit juvenile as if people never ever bragged about what they have and do and people didn’t try to keep up with others.

In Tesco today there were ranks and RANKS of the RANKEST crappy bouquets. It really has gone crazy. It is no longer about any genuine expression of warm gratitude. It is about the fear of seeming ungrateful if you don't let yourself be guilted into a tat-buying frenzy.
And judging from mumsnet, the recipients don't enjoy any of it anymore. They just feel miserable and slighted if they don't get what they have been led to expect, and barely mollified if they do.
It's been commercialised for years of course, but this is commercialisation on stilts.

@DinnaeFashYersel and Christmas needs a ban . Oh and Valentine’s Day . Actually there’s loads . Father’s Day ban it …. Patrick’s day don’t care ….. Easter egg day , makes no difference but ban it - guy fawkes day BAN !!

KEEP : Pancake day !!

Equally, cherish your mother's, be thankful they are well

Same with valentines, 6 weeks holidays and Xmas

you've seen nothing yet, trust me.

It's Mothering Sunday , so a card and maybe flowers and / or chocolates, breakfast in bed ( heaven help us I'd rather skip that one ).
You're lucky if you've still got your Mum, I wish I still had mine to spoil.

Mothers Day isn't A Christian festival, it was set up by a Christian woman for friendship and support of Mothers. Also we aren't a Christian country. A country is made up of people. Some might be Christian, Hindu, Muslim or non religious. Celebrating Mothers (or not) isn't necessarily a religious or Christian thing. Of course people can go to church with their mothers and thank God for them but it's not a Christian activity

I’m going to the cemetery with a bunch of daffs.