Another early Mother's Day effort was led by teacher and principal Mary Towles Sasseen, of Henderson, Kentucky.Her idea, launched in 1887, focused on schools: Sasseen wrote a guide, Mother’s Day ...

For Mother’s Day, I like to give and receive plants for the garden. My mother and I are both gardeners, and May in California is just a crazy-in-bloom, fertile time, ...

When it comes to honoring our parents on their special days, dads appear to be the big loser. Here’s why we cheap out on Father’s Day.