Learn about the history of Mother's Day in this short video. Today, the Mother's Day mainly represents giving thanks to mothers around the world.

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If you do not have anything nice say. Do not say anything at all. If ever one else will jumping out for cliff would you do too? We have all heard these words of wisdom for our medicine one time or another and today is the day to thank her. Hi, I am Rebecca Brake and welcome to watch mojo.com and today we were wishing all you mom out there a happy mothers day. Celebrating mothers and their contribution to society is a relatively recent phenomenon at least in North America. Aging cultures pick tribute to others likening them to goddesses. Today, Mother’s Day is celebrated on different days in different countries. In the United Kingdom, Mothering Sunday falls on the fourth Sunday during lent. The day most commonly used throughout the world however is the second Sunday in May. Mothering Sunday in Britain did not originate as a celebration of a motherhood but it religious justification during lent. Children mainly daughters were given a day off to visit their mothers and family. Daughters who were in a domestic service use this day to show their mothers their skills usually by baking them a single cake. Also, people would return to mother church for a special service on that fourth Sunday during lent. Today, it is primarily used to give thanks for mothers although some churches in Britain still recognize it as a religious day. With mothering Sunday is a precaution to American Mother’s Day they event was founded in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and it was arguably found of by two different women. The first Julia Word How come to the Mother’s Day for peace to be held on June 2, 1872. It was planned as a waiting night women against war. By the next year women were celebrating in 18th Cities across the US. Celebrations continue in Boston for another 10 years being founded by How until she stops subsiding the event. It eventually phase out. In 1905, a women named Anna Jarvis decided to follow the dream of her recently deceased mother to create a national day to honor mothers. By 1912 after much lobbying, Jarvis’s home State of West Virginia adopted in official Mother’s Day and two years later US congress established a national Mother’s Day. The same one we know today. Today, celebrations of Mother’s Day often have children making breakfast for their mothers, buying flowers, gifts or candy, and of course a greeting card. More phone calls are made on Mother’s Day in the US than any other day of the year and it is also the busiest day of the year for restaurants.