The story of the Mother's Day celebration: several dates and an American start

Arab countries celebrate Mother's Day, the birthday celebrated by most countries of the world at different dates, the honor of mothers and praise for their efforts and their gifts to raise societies.

Mothers and children are happy to present gifts to mothers, remind them of their influence on society and celebrate their achievements at all levels.

The Mother's Day celebration is different in the world, but most countries celebrate it in March and May, which all Arab countries celebrate each year on March 21st. In the United States and in a number of countries in Eastern Europe and Asia, May 2, while South Africa celebrates May 8 and Norway on February 2.

Celebrating Mother's Day

Anna Jarvis celebrated the first day of Mother's Day on May 12, 1907 in honor of her mother, who had once said: "One day, someone will come to the idea of ​​the Mother's Day, "hosting a public gathering in a church in Grafton, Virginia. After having convinced the governor of the state to give orders for the first celebration of Mother's Day.

Jarvis struggled for approval by circulating this day as a celebration of motherhood across America and created the Mother's Day Society in 1912 in order to spread it.

Thanks to his hard work, and in the five years since that date, every major city in the United States celebrates Mother's Day every year. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson announced that Mother's Day had become a celebration. in America.

The first Arab country to celebrate Mother's Day

The first to think about celebrating Mother's Day in the Arab world The Egyptian journalists Ali Amin and his brother Mostafa, founders of Akhbar Al Youm, on December 9, 1955, after visiting the late Mustafa Amin in his office, She s & # She is married, has devoted her life to them and has continued to take care of them until they graduate from university, get married and take their lives and their lives. leave completely.

"We do not agree on any of the days of the year.We call it Mother's Day and make a holiday in our country and in the country of the year. On the same day, the children offer their mother little gifts, and they send him small letters saying, "Thank you, mother. "Why do not we encourage children that day to treat them as a mother to prevent them from working, and they instead take all their domestic chores instead, but every year mark the day of Mother's Day?

Some suggested to devote a week to the mother and not just a day, others rejected the idea, saying that "every day of the year are a treat for the mother, not a "day," but most readers subscribed to the idea One day, readers chose March 21 as Mother's Day, the first day of spring, symbol of tenderness, serenity, kindness and feelings beautiful.

Thus, the first celebration of Mother's Day took place in Egypt on March 21, 1956, after which the idea spread to the Arab countries.