Fun Mother’s Day Cartoon
February 19th, 2007
CartoonChurch’s Dave Walker recently updated his cute cartoon for Mother’s Day.
You can find more of his cool cartoons at Cartoon Church and We Blog Cartoons.
Archive for February, 2007
When Did Mother’s Day Come About?
February 19th, 2007
We recently finished our article about the history of Mother’s Day. It is a fascinating read if you wanted to know more about how Mother’s Day came into being.
Australia’s Mother’s Day Classic Run in One Month
February 13th, 2007
The popular growing Australian run for breast cancer occures in exactly one month. If you are in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, or Sydney on Sunday the 13th of May consider walking or running to help raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. If you can’t make the event consider sponsoring someone who is going. More details at the official site.
Johnstown Primary School Bans Mother’s Day Cards
February 8th, 2007
A head teacher in a Carmarthen, West Wales school has decided to ban the making of Mother’s Day cards:
“More than five per cent of children here are separated from their birth mother and have either no contact or no regular contact with their mother,” she said.
Surely it is sad to know parental ties have been broken for some children, but it doesn’t make sense to go out of our way to break them for all children. Everyone is a minority if you inspect them hard enough, but we shouldn’t make everyone suffer for it. How is that politically correct?
Anyone who thinks that being different is a bad thing or something that everyone should give up freedoms for should read about how bad that world would be if we were all the same in Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron.
