Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday, the 10th of March, and people around the country will be celebrating the mothers in their lives.
It falls on different days in many parts of the world but most commonly in March and May.
For some, Mother's Day is an ideal celebration to honour family, motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society, but for others the day isn't as important.
We asked people in Manchester about their thoughts on Mother's Day.
It falls on different days in many parts of the world but most commonly in March and May.
For some, Mother's Day is an ideal celebration to honour family, motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society, but for others the day isn't as important.
We asked people in Manchester about their thoughts on Mother's Day.
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00:00 Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday the 10th of March and people around the
00:04 country will be celebrating the mothers in their lives. It falls on different
00:08 days in many parts of the world but most commonly in March and May. For some
00:13 Mother's Day is an ideal celebration to honor family, motherhood, maternal bonds
00:17 and the influence of mothers in society but for others the day isn't quite as
00:21 important. We asked people in Manchester about their thoughts on Mother's Day.
00:26 Yeah I've got three children. Mother's Day is a big day for me and it's just a
00:33 big day to think about what your mum has done for you. As a mother yourself
00:41 you kind of you start to realize everything that's involved. You rarely
00:45 have much time to yourself so I think a little bit of time that you could give
00:50 your mother a treat or just give her a little bit time or just give a little
00:53 bit of space and that's that's really important. I think you say you don't mind
00:58 like you're not too fussed so I don't think we really do much but some like
01:03 little bits. Yeah I agree I mean I think about it for my mum but I'm not
01:10 interested in the kind of commercial aspect so it's just a little a day of
01:15 niceness but it doesn't have to be a big thing it's not a big issue and you could
01:19 do it a week late or a week early and I wouldn't mind. I think we do like little bits but it's not we don't make it a big thing.
01:29 A card and maybe a little bunch of daffodils. Yeah yeah. We'll make me a cup of tea.
01:35 Have you had breakfast in bed at all? Have you before? I bet you have.
01:41 Yeah maybe yeah. Yes of course so what we do is that usually we try to find out the
01:48 best gift for our mother and then we celebrate it together at her place and
01:55 yes it's an important day to spend time together and have a good time. I think
02:00 there's quite a lot of commercial days Valentine's, Mother's Day, Father's Day
02:03 etc you know it's nice like if my daughter got me a card or some
02:09 flowers from my grandchildren but I wouldn't really be that upset because I
02:12 think there's like too many holidays and people you know some people are
02:16 struggling so they can't always afford to be getting cards all the time and
02:20 presents. Yeah especially for me I'm not my mum lives in Manchester I'm in the
02:25 US so try and make the most of it and this we're going back actually the day
02:29 before Mother's Day so we're gonna have an early Mother's Day with her so yeah
02:35 pretty important to me. Oh my gosh yeah my mum loves Mother's Day I think all
02:39 mums love Mother's Day it's good excuse for brunch and flowers and all that good
02:43 stuff so yeah.