Mother's Day Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Myanmar==== In Myanmar, Mothers' Day (the plural form of mother is used as an official title<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/burma/2011/01/110119_mothers_day|title=မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ အမေများနေ့ ကျင်းပ |last=ဘီဘီစီ |website= BBC Myanmar|date=18 January 2011|access-date=19 May 2020 |language=my |trans-title=Mothers' day is held in Myanmar.}}</ref>) is celebrated on the full moon day of [[Pyatho]], the tenth month of the Myanmar calendar, which usually falls in January.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yangonlife.com.mm/en/article/myanmar-mothers-day-review|title=Myanmar Mother's Day Review|last=Yee Mon|date=27 January 2016|website=Yangon Life|access-date=18 May 2020|archive-date=4 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804021430/https://yangonlife.com.mm/en/article/myanmar-mothers-day-review|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the proposal and initiative of [[Thukha|U Thukha]], who put a lot of effort into founding this day, it was first celebrated in [[Mandalay]] on the full moon day of Pyatho in 1995, but it was officially added to the Myanmar calendar in 1997, two years after its first celebration.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://uzo.sakura.ne.jp/burma/nlm/nlm_data/nlm_2000/nlm_10_2000/N001027.htm|title=Yangon University confers Doctor of Letters on Reactor Sayadaw of International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University, Sayagyi U Thukha|last=The New Light of Myanmar|date=5 January 2019|access-date=18 May 2020|quote=Because of his organization, the Fullmoon Day of Pyatho has been observed as Mothers" Day since 1997.}}</ref> People who are away from home, send postcards or phone their mothers to express love and gratitude and those who live with their mother, give her personal service, like bathing or shampooing, and usually take her to pagodas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mdn.gov.mm/my/paasiulpnny-amemaane|title=ပြာသိုလပြည့် အမေများနေ့|last=မုဒိတာ (တောင်သာ)|date=5 January 2019|website=Myanmar Digital News|access-date=18 May 2020|trans-title=Mothers' day, the full moon of Pyatho.|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805084456/https://www.mdn.gov.mm/my/paasiulpnny-amemaane|url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page