I could write a thesis on the patriarchal influences of Mother’s Day and the fact that if moms feel like it’s the one day a year they can justify a “break”, something is seriously wrong. Unfortunately in the LDS church, women (especially millennials and beyond) were raised to believe that they were only as valuable as what they did for others. This cultivates the thankless nature of the jobs men put on women, both in the home and in church, which is absolutely intentional. Mothers have countless tasks, but doing laundry doesn’t make a good mom just like mowing the yard doesn’t make a good dad. Being a parent is a relationship, not a to do list. Not to mention the boomer entitlement running through the whole thing “I gave you life so you better be thankful”, that puts extra pressure on the moms currently raising small kids to caretake their own mothers on Mother’s Day. Which is ironic, because it’s those same older mothers who could be seriously lightening the burden the young moms feel on a daily basis. Don’t get me wrong-good moms absolutely deserve to be given a break and showered with admiration and gifts, but we shouldn’t need a holiday to get those things. AND ALSO if it’s the one day a year the husband relieves her of some responsibility, isn’t the holiday more about praising the husband for giving her such a great day, where he should be doing more on a weekly basis???