The importance of Father’s Day
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There’s
an idea about Father’s Day that still gets an airing every so often but really
needs to be stamped out once and for all. What is this dated, negative notion?
It’s the idea that Father’s Day is a commercial enterprise invented by card
shops, gift shops, whiskey distillers and slipper tycoons in a dubious secret
conspiracy and that it has no real historical foundation. The kind of person
who puts this idea forward will traditionally have no problem at all with
Mother’s Day (which is a bit weird). So do they therefore buy mothers, grannies
and daughters birthday gifts but not fathers day gifts, granddads and sons? Of
course not! Already their argument is beginning to lose strength.
Granted,
Father’s Day is not as old as Mothering Sunday or even the “Mother’s Day” that
has effectively replaced it. But Father’s Day isn’t as baseless as some think
it is, and people are surprised to learn that it actually dates back to early
twentieth century
and an enlightened soul called Sonora Smart Dodd (yes, a woman). She reasoned
that fathers deserved the same recognition as mothers do and that a day in the
church calendar should be set aside for it. But her story was a sad one.
the birth of her sixth child and so her father William had to raise the girl
and her five siblings without any maternal assistance. It was after a Mothering
Sunday service that
approached the local ministry to suggest the new celebration, even going so far
as to name a date – 5 June, her father’s birthday. The ministry liked the idea,
but wanted the celebration to always fall on a Sunday, choosing the third
Sunday of June. On 19 June 1910, fathers were finally given their very own day
for the first time. Before long, the concept had spread over the whole state
and nation, and eventually the world. Now the day is highlighted in every
diary, calendar and gift shop window so we have no excuses to miss it!
So
after such an auspicious and emotive start, why has it come to represent socks,
a four-pack of beer and lingerie-print barbecue aprons? Because that’s what we think dads like, that’s why! While
there’s a large number of dads who do
appreciate such gifts, it’s certainly not all of them – we should never forget
that nude print aprons are preferred by some.
no doubt that <a
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day gifts</a will always be part of the celebrations and
that the day is no longer seen in a religious context by the majority of
people. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t aim to trivialise the occasion. We
should always remember that dad is a unique person with his own loves,
interests and sense of humour, and aim to buy him a Father’s Day gift that is
tuned in to his wavelength and reminds him of the original meaning of the day:
letting him know he’s the best and taking the opportunity to say a heartfelt
thank you for being such a faultless specimen.
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