Today is Mother\u2019s Day \u2014 a day that gives people a special opportunity to show their gratitude to the moms, grandmas, stepmoms, aunts, and other maternal figures in their lives. Mother\u2019s Day is always the second Sunday in May \u2014 this year, that\u2019s May 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The average age for first time mothers has gone up over the past 20 years\u2026 in 2000, the average age was 24.9 years, in 2020 it was 27.1 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mother\u2019s Day always falls on a Sunday, and attending church is a popular activity among families. A recent poll asking pastors about the highest attended Sundays at their churches throughout the year, Mother\u2019s Day ranked third behind Easter and Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today has always been a day to take mom out to dinner \u2014 even during the pandemic. In 2020, consumer spending at restaurants increased 103 percent on Mother\u2019s Day Sunday (compared to the average daily revenue throughout the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some data indicates that the Greeks and Romans celebrated Mother\u2019s day by honoring goddess Cybele, personifying Mother Earth (Gaia) and the goddess of fertility, and Rhea, mother of the gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The idea of Mother\u2019s Day first surfaced in the United States after the Civil War and was suggested by social activist Julia Ward Howe. However, her vision was a Mother\u2019s Day for Peace \u2014 where women would protest against war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current version of Mother\u2019s Day was started by Anna Jarvis in the early 1900s. Jarvis persuaded President Woodrow Wilson to declare that the second Sunday of every May would be Mother\u2019s Day. But less than 10 years after she fought so hard to make it happen, Anna Jarvis despised the holiday and spoke out vehemently about the commercialization of Mother\u2019s Day, and called for its demise. She was actually arrested during one of her protests in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say a woman\u2019s work is never done \u2014 that\u2019s especially true for moms\u2026 it\u2019s a 24\/7, 365-day commitment and according to research, stay-at-home-moms should earn $162,581 a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the old adage that \u201clife doesn\u2019t come with a manual; it comes with a mother,\u201d is probably true and we should thank her every day, but maybe especially today \u2014 Happy Mother\u2019s Day.
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Today is Mother\u2019s Day \u2014 a day that gives people a special opportunity to show their gratitude to the moms, grandmas, stepmoms, aunts, and other maternal figures in their lives. Mother\u2019s Day is always the second Sunday in May \u2014 … Continue reading