Inside Motherhood

On Mother’s Day.

by Jean Angus on May 9th, 2006

Cardmakers all around the world are rubbing their hands in anticipation of a huge boost in business thanks to Mother’s Day. My daughter came home the other day with a card in hand - not one of those prosaic Hallmark ones, but one she’d made herself using a little piece of art paper and shape stamps. I was a little touched that she’d actually gone to the trouble of punching out little flowers on the card and everything but at the same time oddly apathetic as to its sentiment.

Mother’s Day has never been a time to celebrate in my diary of events to mark. Neither are Valentine’s Day, Father’s Day, Children’s Day or Teacher’s Day for that matter. Maybe I am an unsentimental old cow, but I think all these “special days” hype up the act rather than the emotion. Meaning, people celebrate it more for its symbolism and attendant niceties than anything else. To me, if you appreciate and honour your mother/father/kids/teachers, you should do it every day of your life, and not just on that one special day.

So Mother’s Day to me is a non-event. I don’t expect anything nice to be done for me, and neither will I do anything nice for my mother or my mother-in-law. Too bad for Hallmark and my local fine dining restaurants, all of which will no doubt have exorbitantly priced “Mother’s Day special menus” to fleece those who allow themselves to be caught up in the moment.

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