Mothers' and fathers' days: what about sons' or daughters' day?

In the UK we celebrate Mother's Day in Marc and the real original name for it is Mothering Sunday and it is always held on the forth Sunday of Lent. In Victorian times it was a time when children in service were given the day off to go home to their mothers and families. In England it goes back to the 1600's and was originally a religious occasionlinked to the Virgin Mary. I believe that it wasn't until 1872 when Mother's Day was started in the US. Father's Day didn't start until 1910 and was an American idea, this has no religious connection but in some Catholic countries it is held in MArch on St Joseph's day. There is no need to be a child's day or a boy's and girl's day as every day is good for them!!

Probably the greeting card companies have not come up with that idea yet Daughter or Son's Day but maybe they will, who knows. You can buy your mom a cake with the icing happy mother's day. I am sure she will be happy. Or you can just pick flowers in the garden and add a note to it. That would be really sweet and I am pretty sure your mom will appreciate it.

To be honest, I don't think it's really necessary to have this "Son/Daughters'" day... I mean, why bother with it? It's not like it's worth to celebrate it. Look at the fact. It's our mothers and fathers that sacrifices to give us a good life. While in return, sons/daughters just get all the blessings. Do we tuck in our mother every night when they sleep? Do we give our parents a bath? Do we serve them their food every meal? The things we do back at them is just a mere "thank you" for everything they did to us. But them? They do it because they love us and wants us to have a good life in the future.

I always used to wonder this as well, Im glad to see someone has posted the real reason as I was not aware of this either, and Im from the uk as well so really I guess I should have known about it. I dont know about having a Son or Daughter day, but Im all for having an extra bank holiday, anything that means more time off work lol!

I think we have too many days already without adding some other ones. The greeting cards company would sure love to add that to the ever growing list of days; so that they can make more money. Let's face it, isn't everyday 'Son's Day' or 'Daughter's Day'? Every day our parent's showers us with love anyway. Do we really need a day dedicated so that our parents can give us presents?? I think not.

I honestly hope it doesnt happen not because im a killjoy. Just i think parents splash out enough on there kids trying to keep there kids happy and in with the latest trends etc. it would have no religous significance so would just feel like a marketing ploy. to make you buy over priced cards and junk. Mothers and fathers day means something to me personally cause yes you may scream and yell at your parents but that lil extra pressie to say thank you mum thank dad for looking out for me etc but son and daughter day that just sounds like pure and utter greed you get christmas birthday easter presents we feed you cloth you and put a roof over there heads but you still want more it makes them sound like spoilt brats.

My daughter was wondering this also.Guess you have to wait till you one day become a dad to get this privildged day.lol

In some places they have a childrens day. I don't know why they don't have it everywhere. Our children are just as important to us as we are to them.

i mean i am not too sure what we would be celebrating on that day.... thankyou for being a son/daughter? i mean everyone is someone elses son or daughter so there is nothing special about that, but not every mother or father is a good one. so i think it is only right to show alittle extra appreciation one day out of the year.

I hope there would be one too, but here is the problem, all of us are daughters and sons, even our parents have their parents hehehe.

I would not mind if there is no son's or daughter's day. Because I believed our parents did so much for us since we're young. I remembered every year that my parent prepared for my birthday even though were tight in budget just to make me happy. I think its about time for us to make our parents happy by celebrating their day. And so just this once, just tell them that I love you daddy or I love you Mommy for everything until the time I can walk on my own. It does make a change and make a family bonding closer. Is'nt it nice?

Maybe one day they will create a son's day. But sons will have their own day eventually when a son hopefully becomes a father