I hate holidays. Pretty much all holidays. The only reasons why holidays are good are because you get a paid day off of work. Or extra pay if you still have to work.
I don't understand why every day can't be treated the same.
The felons at the halfway house want special treatment of privileges on holidays, which invariably means a lot more attitude and entitlement from them, and a lot more work and stress for us.
Holidays are emotional. They remind you of the person you wish you (or someone else) would be, or the people who aren't around you, etc. My idea of being a good kid on father/mother's day is to text my dad, and then to try to call him on my 10 minute commute to work. :-( I'm a bad kid.
I dislike father/mother's day because it emphasizes individuals who perform a specific activity. It pulls this group of people and makes them more important and valuable than the others who don't fit into the group. Why don't we have a 3rd basemen's day?
How do you define parenthood? Does reproduction make you a mother or a father? What about step-parents? Or father figures? Where do they (we) fit in here?
What about women and men who are unable to have children (physically, financially, emotionally, lack of partners)? For those, these holidays are days of pain. To people who are separated from their parents/children whether it's due to the military, estrangement, or deaths, now we're stuck for an entire day feeling that longing and sadness.
We all know that there is no such thing as the perfect parent. So why set aside a special day when all we can think about is the things we could have done better as parents or the things our parents could have done better for us?
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