Where did mothers day originate from?
Mother’s Day is a little over 100 years old. It started after the American Civil War in the early 1860s, when Julia Ward Howe launched a Mother’s Day for Peace. The first Mother’s Day for peace was held in 1872. In 1907, Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia had the idea of holding special church services in honor of mothers. In 1914 the President of the United States declared the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays/… The modern Mother’s Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor its mother,[1] and it’s now celebrated on various days in many places around the world. It complements Father’s Day, the celebration honoring fathers. This holiday is relatively modern, being created at the start of the 20th century, and should not be confused with the early pagan and christian traditions honouring mothers, or with the 16th century celebrati
