Hyderabad: The importance of parents in life comes when a person expects unconditional love and it comes only from mother and father. In order to dedicate a day for the parents, International Parents’ Day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of July every year in many countries. It is a day to celebrate all that parents do for us.
No matter where our parents maybe, this day serves to celebrate their important role in our lives. In May we celebrated mothers, and in June we celebrated fathers. It follows that in July we can bring all our parents together and show them some appreciation all at once. Parents play a vital role in the lives of children.
Parents play the biggest role in our development. Father and Mother play an important role in our mental, physical, social, financial, and career development. They help us in every step of our life. From our birth, parents protect, teach, provide, and serve as role models.
On this particular Sunday, we honour all parents who do everything to raise and protect their children. Every year, 4th Sunday of the Month July is celebrated as Parent's Day.
Parents’ Day Celebrations in Others Countries :
Parents’ Day is the aptest time for sending cards and gifts to acknowledge the parental figure for their positive and tempering effect on children’s lives.
To make this day memorable, children often make personalized gifts such as family photos, collages, stickers and sketches and even handmade scarves, boxes, pots and whatever affectionate ways of saying ‘thank you’ that they can conceive of.
This day also sees formal activities like speeches organized by foundations and societies, special tributes, church services, or local community events that aim at fun activities that strengthen family bonding.
Parent’s Day Celebrations are especially marked by fun-filled activities and initiatives. In the U.S., each state nominates a parent’s who exemplify good parenthood contend for National Parents of the Year Award.
These are few Incidents which shows how parents can go any length to provide the best for their children
1. A poor Parents Kuldip Kumar & his wife were forced to sell their cow, the only source of income, for Rs 6,000 for buying a smartphone for online studies of their two children. They belong to Gummer village in Jwalamukhi. With the lockdown in force in March, schools were also closed. His children, Annu and Dippu, were studying in Class IV and Class II.
As the schools started online classes pressure mounted on Kuldip to buy a smartphone for the children to continue the study. Kuldip lives in a kutcha house. Kuldip has neither a below poverty line (BPL) card, nor is he a beneficiary of the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP).
Kuldip said he had given a number of applications to the panchayat for financial assistance for the construction of the house and inclusion of his name in the IRDP, BPL and Antodaya, but all in vain.
2. A 50-year old woman from Telangana’s Nizamabad district travelled on a two-wheeler to Nellore 700 km away to pick up her teen son stuck in Andhra Pradesh due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
Razia Begum, a government teacher in Bodhan town of Nizamabad district, started her journey on Monday morning riding her Scooty and reached Nellore town in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday afternoon. She picked up her 17-year old son Mohammed Nizamuddin, who was stuck at his friend’s place in Nellore and headed back home. She was covering a total of 1,400 km in three days.
3. An exhausted woman drags her suitcase on a highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra. Her son, around four to five years, worn out by an arduous journey, sleeps on the suitcase. They had completed two-third of their 800 km-long journey from Punjab. The incident wrenched the hearts of many as the country entered the fiftieth day of the COVID-19 lockdown.
