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Mother’s Day is a holiday in many countries of the world. It falls on the second Sunday in May. In English we have a saying: “there is no love like a mothers love.” At DreyerCoaching.com, we know successful learning involves the STUDENT, the TEACHER, and the HOME, so we are THANKFUL to partner with mothers as we help their children learn English or Chinese. At DreyerCoaching.com, we honor and thank all the mothers. Even the Bible says, “Honor your father and your mother” (Exodus 20:12). Remember your mother on Mother’s Day! Happy Mother’s Day!<\/p>\n
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Mother’s Day is a day to honor and thank one’s mother, and in many families, also a grandmother. Since it is always on a Sunday, that usually makes it easier for families to get together.<\/p>\n
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How we celebrate it in the USA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Like most holidays, different families celebrate in different ways. And of course, there are some people who do not celebrate the holiday. Maybe they have, for whatever reason, painful memories or experiences regarding their mother, or motherhood. However, there are some common ways this day is marked.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her children arise and call her blessed;<\/span> <\/p>\n Read it in Traditional Chinese<\/a> or Simplified Chinese<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In many churches, the congregation<\/a> will give each mother a small gift, or maybe the children of the church will enter the sanctuary<\/a> and give each mom a small gift, like a hand-drawn picture<\/a> or a flower<\/a>. In many churches, the pastor will ask questions to honor certain mothers: Who is the youngest mother here today? Who is the most experienced mother? (This is a nice way of saying, “Who is the oldest mother?”) Which mother has the most children? Which mother has a child the furthest away? (Once the pastor at the church my parents attend in Virginia<\/a> asked this question. My mom raised her hand, because I was in Taiwan<\/a>, but another woman raised hers too, because she had a son in Germany<\/a>, serving in the US Army. At that point, a discussion erupted: Which is further away, Taiwan or Germany? To which my dad answered, “I think Taiwan is about as far away as you can get, until you start coming back again.” That year, mom won that prize.) A student from Germany recently spent three weeks with us here, and he said, at his church in Germany, all the members have a cook-out for Mother’s Day after the Sunday service.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Take a look at this video from a US church service on Mother’s Day<\/a>: and the woman who is speaking and singing knows a lot about Mother’s Day–she has 7 kids!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I do not pretend to be a gourmet chef, but I did not want my wife or mom to have to cook on Mother’s Day. So, we plan to grill hot dogs and hamburgers, and I made this bean salad so we’d have something healthy to go with it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mrs. Dreyer’s 3-bean Salad<\/a>:(healthy, quick, AND easy!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are some flowers that some of our children gave their mother for Mother’s Day: they knew purple is their mom’s favorite color! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n *************<\/p>\n Watch how these two young men answer the question, “What does Mother’s Day mean to you?”<\/a><\/p>\n This is very funny at Mother’s Day or almost any time, because “The Mom’s Song” takes many things a mom (or dad) will tell a child in 24 hours, and reduce it to 3 minutes. Take a listen!<\/a> (And you can read the lyrics too–it’s fast!)<\/p>\n ************<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Many years ago I heard a story from family expert Dr. James Dobson<\/a> that has always been in my mind. This story is from many decades ago, before the age of computers and cell phones, when people made calls from phone booths<\/a>. He said that a card company, I think Hallmark<\/a>, wanted to do something good for society so they brought a phone line into a prison<\/a> for a day, to let each inmate<\/a> make a free call to his or her mom, for Mother’s Day. The outreach was more successful than any company executive had dreamed, because all the prisoners came to the courtyard and stood in line<\/a> for hours, to call mom. In fact, the event was so successful, the company leadership decided to redo the offer in June, for Father’s Day. However, that time, the outreach was a failure. Why? Only a few prisoners came out to call dad; instead, most stayed in their cells<\/a>. Dr. Dobson said this story illustrates how important a role moms have, in that those prisoners all wanted to call mom on that day. However, the story also shows how important fathers are; in this case, most prisoners either did not have a dad, or did not have a good relationship with their father, so they did not bother to call home. Furthermore, Dobson suggested that it was this poor father-child bond that may have contributed to so many people ending up in prison in the first place. So, moms and dads are both important, though maybe in some different ways. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n **************<\/p>\n Grammar question:<\/strong><\/span> How do you write this holiday? Mothers Day? Mother’s Day? or Mothers’ Day?<\/strong><\/span> This article<\/a> explains that actually all three are grammatically correct, but each grammar change brings a small change in meaning. However, the woman who created the idea of Mother’s Day wanted it written as a singular noun with the apostrophe<\/a> BEFORE the “s,” so that is how we will use it here: Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n THANK YOU for reading! Do you want to know more about English and life in the USA? Join an online class with DreyerCoaching.com<\/a>! Contact Scott today<\/a> to find out how!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mother’s Day is a holiday in many countries of the world. It falls on the second Sunday in May. 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