Mother's Day History | Song about Mommy

Mother’s Day History dates back to the era of ancient Greeks and Romans.

Ancient Greeks celebrated a spring festival dedicated to to maternal goddesses Rhea, wife of Cronus and the mother of many deities of Greek mythology. Ancient Romans celebrated a spring festival dedicated to Cybele, a mother goddess. The ceremonies honoring Cybele began around 250 years B.C. The celebration lasted for three days and included parades, games and masquerades.

During the 17th century, Christians living on the British isles initiated a celebration of motherhood, called Mothering Sunday, which was held on the forth Sunday during of Lent. This holiday featured the reunification of mothers and their children, separated when working class families had to send off their young children to be employed as house servants. On Mothering Sunday, the child servants were allowed to return home for the day to visit with their parents.

Custom of celebrating Mothering Sunday died out almost completely by the 19th century. However, after World War II, the Mother’s Day History has continued in the US.

In 1858, Anna Reeves Jarvis was the first woman to hold an official celebration of mothers, when in her home state of West Virginia, she instituted Mothers’ Work Day to raise awareness about local sanitation issues.

In 1872, Julia Ward Howe, author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” suggested and promoted a Mother’s Day for Peace, to be held on June 2, which was celebrated the following year by women in 18 cities across America. Her idea spread but was later replaced by the Mother’s Day holiday now celebrated in May.

In 1905, Anna Reeves Jarvis passed away and her daughter, Anna Jarvis, who is recognized as the Founder of Mother’s Day in the US, continued her mother’s work. Anna swore on her mother’s gravesite that she would realize her lifelong dream of creating a national day to honor mothers. In 1907, Anna launched her campaign by handing out white carnations to congregants at her mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia. In 1908, her mother’s church acquiesced to Anna’s request to hold a special Sunday service in honor of mothers – a tradition that spread the very next year to churches in 46 states. In 1909, Anna left her job and dedicated herself to a full-time letter-writing campaign, imploring politicians, clergymen and civic leaders to institute a national day for mothers. The hard work paid off. By 1911, Mother’s Day was celebrated in almost every state in the Union, and on May 8, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

Today Mothers Day is celebrated in many countries including the US, UK, India, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Belgium. People take the day as an opportunity to pay tribute to their mothers and thank them for all their love and support.Traditionally, flowers, cards, candies and others gifts are given to mothers on the Mother’s Day. Florists, card manufacturers and gift sellers significantly profit from the sales proceeds on the Mother’s day.

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7 Things Every Parent Should Know About Music Lessons

by Olesya MacNeil

Why do children lose interest in music lessons within the first 6 months? After listening to parents tell me their stories of signing up their children with a music teacher or a music school only see their children’s loss of interest so soon, I wondered why?

In my extensive teaching and now, running my own music school, I saw only a few dropouts after 6 months of studying and two of those were due to parents’ divorce and change of address, and the third student was just not interested to begin play an instrument in the first place.

I began questioning the parents about their children’s lessons and found an astonishing difference.

Those music students who didn’t experience early drop-out were exposed to the following:

1. Teacher’s passion for teaching and creativity counts.

It becomes more and more popular all over the world to start teaching children music, math and reading young. The majority of new music students today are 3-5 year old. We must ask ourselves: how do 3, 4 and 5-year old learn? 3- and 4-year old children have expansive imagination and natural curiosity. Some children this age have pretend friends, love making silly faces, singing unintelligible songs and being funny. They learn best when they are active- dancing, moving, stomping feet, snapping fingers and clapping hands. 5-year olds have a natural desire to become independent and feel grown up. They are eager to learn at this age and their learning should be fun, inspiring and creative.

What resources do music teachers have enabling them to provide fun and interactive individual music lessons to very young children? There is not much material today to support instructors in their teaching process when working with very young kids. Teachers must encourage learning and stimulate children’s natural curiosity and enthusiasms for learning. Teachers must be creative in preparing their lessons plans and fill young children’s lessons with music-related activities that boost their imagination and creativity. Once a student falls in love with music, the child will be ready for the next, more advanced and difficult level of playing with both hands, and learning music theory and improvisation.

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