Mother's Day

====Belgium====
In [[Belgium]], Mother's Day (''Moederdag'' or ''Moederkesdag'' in [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and ''Fête des Mères'' in [[French language|French]]) is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. In the week before this holiday children make little presents at primary school, which they give to their mothers in the early morning of Mother's Day. Typically, the father will buy [[croissant]]s and other sweet breads and pastries and bring these to the mother while she is still in bed – the beginning of a day of pampering for the mother. There are also many people who celebrate Mother's Day on 15 August instead; these are mostly people around [[Antwerp]], who consider that day ([[Assumption of Mary|Assumption]]) the classical Mother's Day and the observance in May an invention for commercial reasons. It was originally established on that day as the result of a campaign by [[Frans Van Kuyck]], a painter and Alderman from Antwerp.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.europeana.eu/2019/05/from-earth-goddess-festival-to-family-feast-the-roots-and-guises-of-mothers-day/|title=the roots and guises of 'Mother's Day'|last=Taes|first=Sofie|date=11 May 2019|website=[[Europeana]] (CC By-SA)|language=en-GB|access-date=13 May 2019|archive-date=13 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513182154/http://blog.europeana.eu/2019/05/from-earth-goddess-festival-to-family-feast-the-roots-and-guises-of-mothers-day/|url-status=dead}}</ref>