Even though I have been in the UK all my life, my parents have always hated the idea of fathers day and mothers day and have infact discouraged us from buying them gifts etc their reasoning being
Why do you need to take a special day out to celebrate your parents, it gives people an excuse to ignore their parents the whole year and just be nice on that day
it was created by hallmark ( card company) and just feeds into our consumerist society.
I agree with them…obviously being their daughter!
I know lots of people love it and thats great too!
I don't hate them. If anything, these are days to be nicer than the usual nice.
Things like going crazy over brand names or who has the most publishable wedding would rank higher on my list of consumerism. Even still, a once is a while thing is totally ok.
how many of us tell our parents how much we love and appreciate them everyday?? I knwo I dun!!
yes it may very well be a hallmark holiday but I think its a nice gesture.. you dun have to go overboard but one day to make them feel the center of your world (instead of it being the other way around) I say there is no harm in it!! I like it and yes I like the smile on my mom's face when I do something special for her!! which I hardly ever get to do on regular basis!
I don't mind getting something nice for my parents. I've heard why do we need a special day.. Well thing is I don't ignore my parents the rest of the year but I still get something nice and expensive on these days and they do appreciate it more. There isn't really any harm in celebrating these days if you are a good child anyway. Its not all year around I give my mom an expensive purse or my dad something nice.
I am actually against celebrating mother's day/father's day or any other day that has to do with celebrating personal relationships based on the date the power that be decided on. I mean, I'm all for making my mother or father feel special once a year...but that day has to have some "specialness" ...for ex, I think, to give the extra boost of love that my parents need...a perfect day would be on the day I was born-my birthday if anything. That's when they became mother and father (for the first time..or the 100th time)...that universal day/date whoever came up with has no meaning or significance to me..neither to my mother or father.
I am actually against valentine's day as well...for the sole reason of this "valentine's" day has no meaning for me or my significant other on a personal level. And I well as heck feel good that I/we don't contribute to the consumerism of these so-called special days by making unnecessary purchases just because.
mother's and father's day must be every single day and those who do NOT have parents alive should send sawaab thru azkaar/vazaai'f/tilaavat. i do NOT have mine so i do recite du'aas and send it to them everyday after fajr salaat
I think it is a nice gesture.Who ignores their parents all year long...?!?!?
I don't care if Hallmark is making profit off another day...I still love sending out mother's/father's day cards.For me it doesn't have to be anything lavish.Just a simple card will do it too.
IMO if I say to my ammi every morning 'ammi I love you..you mean the world to me',it probably wont mean a lot to her ...but saying it once in a while,really makes it special....:)
I think it is a nice gesture.Who ignores their parents all year long...?!?!?
I don't care if Hallmark is making profit off another day...I still love sending out mother's/father's day cards.For me it doesn't have to be anything lavish.Just a simple card will do it too.
IMO if I say to my ammi every morning 'ammi I love you..you mean the world to me',it probably wont mean a lot to her ...but saying it once in a while,really makes it special....:)
if it makes you and ur parents happy, it's alrite :) i think when parent's reach a certain age, the only thing they want is to see the faces of their children/grand-children as many times a week as possible [if NOT living together] and that brings the real smile on their faces :) every child must remember this i suppose :) May Allah make all the parents a happy parent :) aameen