Lots of people think that Mother’s Day was made up by card shops to make money by selling teddy bears and chocolates that spell out ‘Mum’ but that’s not the case at all. Mother’s Day isn’t a new holiday at all. The earliest Mother’s Day celebrations can be traced back to the Ancient Egyptians who held an annual festival to honour Isis, who represented the ideal mother and wife. In Europe, there were Spring time celebrations in Ancient Greece in honour of Rhea, the mother of the gods. People would make offerings of honey-cakes, fine drinks, and flowers at dawn. The...

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