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Father’s Day

The idea behind celebrating Father’s day is not different from that of Mother’s day. A day when children want to express their hidden love for their fathers is popularly celebrated all over the world as Father’s day on the third SUNDAY of the month of the month of June.

There is a lot of fun facts that have been brought into light by Sciences involved with parenting. To begin with children with involved fathers do better in school in comparison to those who fathers are less connected. Also, they are not just academically well versed, but have a higher acceptance level in society and a broader perspective towards life and enough power to deal with ups and downs of life by themselves. What is more enduring for children if they don’t have their fathers with them is to have someone as a father figure whom they can look up to with ease in their hard times. The thing that makes fathering a completely different aspect from Mothering is a positive outlook on the child’s upbringing.

An engrossing story behind the celebration of this day adds to its glory and beauty. While listening to the sermon of Mother’s day in 1909 a lady namely Sonora Smart Dodd decided to celebrate what we today call as Father’s Day. Since she was raised by her father alone. To her, her father meant what to the world their mother means. To pay gratitude to her father’s strain for bringing her up. Therefore the first father’s day was celebrated in Washington on June 19, 1910.

Unlike Mother’s day, this day is associated with political intervention as well. In New York City in the year 1962, a National Father’s Committee was setup. Not only this, the Joint Resolution of Congress in the year 1956 recognized Father’s Day. Also, a permanent observance of this day on the third Sunday of June was announced by President Richard Nixon. This day is not confined to honoring just fathers but also the men who act as father figures. Step fathers, uncles, male friends and grand fathers are also paid gratitude on the same day.