TODAY IS Mother’s Day, a time set aside to honor those courageous women who gave birth to us, resisted the urge to strangle us as teenagers and helped to nurture us to adulthood and onto parenthood ourselves.

Motherhood is an honored and exalted state in life, and most countries all over the world have their own customs in celebrating motherhood and showing how much the work of mothers as the bringers and nurturers of life are appreciated.

According to TheOriginOf. com, the day commemorating the work of mothers is generally known as Mother’s Day and it has been observed in one form or another since ancient times. The modern Mother’s Day, as most of the western world knows it, started out as a call for peace and disarmament in the United States in 1870.

The proclamation for this Mother’s Day was first made by Julia Ward Howe, who urged for the annual observance in the United States of what was called then as the Mother’s Day for Peace.