The response to this depends very much on whether one has a children or not and how one feels about that.
I remember vividly the hurt that felt, nearly 40 years ago, when the church that I attended insisted that on Mothering Sunday, the small and very pretty bunches of flowers that had been made were handed to every single woman at the service, whether a mother or not.
Now, you might think that was a lovely gesture, but in fact it cut me to the core. I wasn’t a mother and my husband was adamant that he didn’t want children. It was a source of great pain to me and to be handed flowers on Mother’s Day, whilst it was something that was meant well, was deeply painful. It’s Mother’s Day, not women’s day. Though, of course, as people will point out, it’s Mothering Sunday when people traditionally returned to the mother church and servants got a half day off to go back home. None of that is relevant today.
I had to put a smile on my face and say thank you to the young child who handed me the posy.
It does hurt, and I think that this was meant well, but Mother’s Day is not the right day for them in my experience. It just makes the hurt even greater.
But, why does say “thinking of everyone…”? Because presumably that includes men, too, but the pictures only refer to women.
I wonder where men go in order to deal with their feelings about their mothers. I hope they have somewhere.