For those of you that do celebrate in your country, do you include all mothers and fathers or only “active duty”? Meaning, if you’re a parent, do you celebrate your parents still as in get a gift or plan some outing/get together?
I work at a children’s museum. We do free admission for all mothers on Mother’s Day. Same for fathers on Father’s Day. We include all self-identified “mother figures” and “father figures”. That means lots of grandparents, but also sometimes older siblings, aunts/uncles, quite a few LGBTQ+ parents who don’t necessarily fit the common biological definition of mother/father. Let’s celebrate the people who nurture us, which can include our biological family, our chosen family, or both.
But what do you do within your family?
We’re not close in my family, so nothing. Which i find sad, but thats how it is. If I had a better relationship with my parents then would certainly do at least a call. My grandparents on my dad’s side died while I was young. Never met my grandparents on my mom’s side.
Seems to be the consensus on the post. “Non-active” parents get a call.
That’s confusing. You’re supposed to “celebrate” your own parents, aka a phone call or something. It doesn’t change anything whether you’re a parent or not.
Or was I trolled by a bot?
I get the intent of the question. As in, should the focus be on parents with non-adult children rather than parents with adult children and/or grandchildren? Not that all parents aren’t celebrated, but the parents actively doing it every day should receive more focus than those not actively parenting
Yeah this is the question
A phone call isn’t much of a celebration. It sounds like you’re saying “non-active” parents are not the focus of celebration.
There is no such thing as non-active parents. My parents will always be my parents, even after their death. My parents are assholes, and do not live in the same country as I do, hence the phone call.
That’s sweet, but you know what I mean.
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As an american, my experience with this is that it varies from family to family and individual to individual. There isn’t really any standard.
But what do you do?
Ignore it as much as possible.
Grandma gets a “Happy Mother’s Day! ♥️” because she’s old now and it means a lot to her.
Usually a phone call to say Happy Father’s Day.
I wanna shift to that
In my country it is usually a busy time at cemetaries as people go to pay respects to their dead parents.
Ah that’s nice. I never celebrated a dead person for mothers or fathers day
