I'm a Mom. And I Do NOT Like Mother's Day

[SweetSue92]

Who thought it would be a great idea to have a holiday on which we're supposed to honor all the moms in our lives on the same day? Moms. Mother-in-laws. Grandmas. Great grandmas. There is almost no way to win unless you can somehow find a way to see, treat, and gift every single mother in your life.

Someone always loses. A lot of us do not care, but every family seems to have at least one woman who cares VERY VERY MUCH and makes Mother's Day her personal Day of Honor.

What I want for Mother's Day: my kids to save their money and live their best lives. What I get: STRESS.

Anyone else?

 

[SaxonJackson]

Not to mention the fact that some mothers are horrible people and horrible parents.

It should be named to "Good Mother's Day."

 

[SweetSue92]

Not to mention the fact that some mothers are horrible people and horrible parents.

It should be named to "Good Mother's Day."

It's just a hotbed of potential downfalls tbh. Women who lost children, women who are infertile....etc.

If you have a great mom, honor her anytime. Birthdays, for one. Or just any time. Tell her you love her just any old day. That's a way to make any day a Mother's Day without all the nonsense!

 

[sparky]

I blame hallmark

~S~

 

[JohnDB]

Who thought it would be a great idea to have a holiday on which we're supposed to honor all the moms in our lives on the same day? Moms. Mother-in-laws. Grandmas. Great grandmas. There is almost no way to win unless you can somehow find a way to see, treat, and gift every single mother in your life.

Someone always loses. A lot of us do not care, but every family seems to have at least one woman who cares VERY VERY MUCH and makes Mother's Day her personal Day of Honor.

What I want for Mother's Day: my kids to save their money and live their best lives. What I get: STRESS.

Anyone else?

Unless you fight the crowds at restaurants for lunch....
While the flowers/potted plant gifted to you wilt and die in the brutal heat of spring in the oven they call a car....

And your children all pick up something new to fight about....including choice of restaurant that you really didnt want to go to on mothers day to begin with....all while ignoring your real needs, wants, and desires....

You ain't a real mom unless you experience this.

Just start laughing at it all....crying, yelling, or ignoring it all hasn't worked yet.

 

[1srelluc]

I blame hallmark

~S~

There is actually someone to blame!

Who Is Responsible for Mother’s Day?​

Mother’s Day is primarily credited to Anna Jarvis, an American social activist who founded the holiday in the early 20th century to honor her late mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis Wikipedia+1.

Anna Jarvis was inspired by her mother’s lifelong work organizing “Mothers’ Day Work Clubs” to improve sanitation and health, especially during the Civil War, and by her efforts to promote peace between former Union and Confederate families. After Ann Jarvis’s death in 1905, Anna began a campaign to establish an annual Mother’s Day service. She held the first formal Mother’s Day church service on May 10, 1908 at St. Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia Wikipedia+1.

 

[JoeB131]

Who thought it would be a great idea to have a holiday on which we're supposed to honor all the moms in our lives on the same day? Moms. Mother-in-laws. Grandmas. Great grandmas. There is almost no way to win unless you can somehow find a way to see, treat, and gift every single mother in your life.

Someone always loses. A lot of us do not care, but every family seems to have at least one woman who cares VERY VERY MUCH and makes Mother's Day her personal Day of Honor.

What I want for Mother's Day: my kids to save their money and live their best lives. What I get: STRESS.

Anyone else?

Sounds like you are running out of things to be outraged about.

 

[1srelluc]

Sounds like you are running out of things to be outraged about.

Retirement will do that to some people.

 

[JoeB131]

There is actually someone to blame!

Who Is Responsible for Mother’s Day?​

Mother’s Day is primarily credited to Anna Jarvis, an American social activist who founded the holiday in the early 20th century to honor her late mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis Wikipedia+1.

Anna Jarvis was inspired by her mother’s lifelong work organizing “Mothers’ Day Work Clubs” to improve sanitation and health, especially during the Civil War, and by her efforts to promote peace between former Union and Confederate families. After Ann Jarvis’s death in 1905, Anna began a campaign to establish an annual Mother’s Day service. She held the first formal Mother’s Day church service on May 10, 1908 at St. Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia Wikipedia+1.

Jarvis also later came to Hate Mother's day because it became too commercial.

She's lucky she didn't live until today.

 

[Zincwarrior]

When your mom has passed this day is..problematic.

 

[sparky]

Jarvis also later came to Hate Mother's day because it became too commercial.

She's lucky she didn't live until today.

She was arrested in 1948 for disturbing the peace while protesting against the commercialization of Mother's Day, and she finally said that she "...wished she would have never started the day because it became so out of control ...She died later that year.


sheesh! ......maybe we should rename it martyrs day........ ~S~

 

[Hafar1014]

Mothers day is fine Valentines day has to stop

 

[BothWings]

I feel the same way about Father's Day too really. And even my birthday to a degree. Many holidays were literally engineered to exploit seasonal changes and mark up prices and make money for corporations. I don't know about everywhere, but where I live Memorial Day almost always completely coincides with a sudden change from chilly windy Easter type weather to scorching hot summer weather with barbecuing and all that. It's like an invisible line gets crossed. And then of course Easter itself almost always seems to coincide with the last snowstorm of the year usually within a week or something. And Thanksgiving always seems to coincide within a week of the first actual snowfall that covers the ground a bit.

And it's interesting how these climate oriiented facts surrounding our holidays all seem to be mostly true in the American Northeast where our government and some of the oldest money in the country resides.

Do people ever actually stop and think that maybe our holiday based culture is completely designed to use us as monetary milk cows???

 

[Hafar1014]

I feel the same way about Father's Day too really. And even my birthday to a degree. Many holidays were literally engineered to exploit seasonal changes and mark up prices and make money for corporations. I don't know about everywhere, but where I live Memorial Day almost always completely coincides with a sudden change from chilly windy Easter type weather to scorching hot summer weather with barbecuing and all that. It's like an invisible line gets crossed. And then of course Easter itself almost always seems to coincide with the last snowstorm of the year usually within a week or something. And Thanksgiving always seems to coincide within a week of the first actual snowfall that covers the ground a bit.

And it's interesting how these climate oriiented facts surrounding our holidays all seem to be mostly true in the American Northeast where our government and some of the oldest money in the country resides.

Do people ever actually stop and think that maybe our holiday based culture is completely designed to use us as monetary milk cows???

Cheapskate how much a re flowers at wall mart 6 bucks