Mother's Day is a modern celebration honoring one's own mother, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. Similar celebrations honor Father's Day and Siblings Day.
The modern American holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, WV which now holds the International Mother's Day Shrine.
She began her campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the United States in 1905, the year her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died.
The United States Congress rejected a proposal to make it an official holiday in 1908, among jokes they would also have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day". Due to Jarvis' campaign efforts, by 1911 all US states observed the holiday, with some of them officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday (the first in 1910 in Jarvis' home state of West Virginia.
In 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation creating Mother’s Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.
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