Cortburg Speaks Retirement

The Origin of Mother’s Day

May 04, 2022 Miguel Gonzalez, MBA, AIF®, CPFA®, CRC® Season 2022 Episode 82
Cortburg Speaks Retirement
The Origin of Mother’s Day
Show Notes Transcript

HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!  On this week's audio podcast, Miguel Gonzalez shares the origin of Mother's Day.

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Cortburg Speaks Retirement

An audio podcast about investing in the stock market, financial planning, money management and retirement planning.  Each Wednesday, we help investors at all stages of life learn how to potentially grow and preserve their money from first job through retirement.

Now here is your host, Miguel Gonzalez.

 

HOST

Good morning and welcome to the CORTBURG SPEAKS RETIREMENT audio podcast.   

On this week’s audio podcast, I talk about the origin of Mother’s Day.   

From gifting flowers, cards, breakfast in bed, and candy, Mother’s Day is deeply rooted in common traditions that pay tribute to moms around the world, ultimately thanking them for providing life. But how did we get here? In the United States, the holiday can be traced back to one determined woman—Anna Jarvis.

The official Mother’s Day holiday came to be in the 1900s as a result of the Anna Jarvis’s efforts. Following her mother’s death in 1905, Jarvis developed the notion of Mother’s Day as a way of honoring the upmost sacrifices that mothers make for their children. Upon gaining financial backing from a wealthy department store owner, she organized her first official celebration at a Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia.

After the success of the first celebration, Jarvis resolved to have the holiday officially added to the national calendar. She started a large letter-writing campaign, arguing that the majority of American holidays were biased toward male achievements. By 1912, multiple churches, towns, and states had adopted Mother’s Day as an annual holiday, which led to Jarvis establishing the Mother’s Day International Association to help promote the cause. Her hard work paid off—in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially signed a measure establishing the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

When you’re celebrating the beauty of motherhood this year, don’t forget the one woman who fought tirelessly to make it a nationally recognized holiday.

Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, my wife and all the amazing mothers in this world.  We appreciate you. 

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This is Miguel Gonzalez, Certified Retirement Counselor (CRC) and Managing Partner, with Cortburg Retirement Advisors signing off for this week’s educational podcast.  

 

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