It’s the season again, we begin to hear all kinds of greetings and then we get confused and out comes the question; “How many mother’s day do we have in a year”?
To be totally honest this really got me bothered at some point. When on two of the “mother’s days” I didn’t get to call my mom because I didn’t even realise it was “mother’s day”.
These days have always been marked but they have become more popular because of social media. It’s very likely to go online and find out it is this day or that day for so and so.
Women are a special specie of humans. In 2022 the Word of the year (most searched word) on dictionary.com was woman.
She can and must be celebrated daily.
I have listed a few selected days for celebrating women and why.
Women’s day is an international day set aside for celebrating and recognising women’s achievement and development. It’s also a day for recognising women’s rights (gender, reproduction etc) and violence/abuse against women. It is celebrated yearly on Marth 8th.
Mother’s day – This is celebrated on different dates, depending on the country. The dates change every year. It often is between the months of March and May (commonly second Sunday in May). It is a day set aside for honouring and appreciation mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds. As there isn’t any specific day for mother’s day, it’s likely for someone in Australia to wish a ‘happy mothers day’ on her social platform and then someone in Nigeria could go ahead to assume it applies there too.
Mothering Sunday is a day when people honour their mother church (where you were baptised). On this day, the mothers are also honoured, along with Mary the mother of Jesus. Some also honour mother nature on this day.
Women’s History Month – March
Today, I join women all over the world to celebrate ourselves.
May we find the strength, peace, wisdom and courage we seek. May we be bold enough to rise up and take It.
Happy International Women’s Day
