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! ====Sweden==== In [[Sweden]], Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1919, by an initiative of the author Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg. It took several decades for the day to be widely recognized. Swedes born in the early nineteen hundreds typically did not celebrate the day because of the common belief that the holiday was invented strictly for commercial purposes. This was in contrast to Father's Day, which has been widely celebrated in Sweden since the late 1970s. Mother's Day in Sweden is celebrated on the last Sunday in May. A later date was chosen to allow everyone to go outside and pick flowers.<ref name="nordstjernan.com z291">{{cite web | title=Unique page title | website=nordstjernan.com | url=https://nordstjernan.com/news/traditions/5542/ | access-date=January 6, 2024}}</ref><ref name="VÄRLDENS HISTORIA 2023 w007">{{cite web | title=Mors dag 2023: När är det mors dag? | website=VÄRLDENS HISTORIA | date=May 28, 2023 | url=https://varldenshistoria.se/samhalle/traditioner/mors-dag-nar-ar-det-mors-dag | language=sv | access-date=January 6, 2024}}</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