Father's Day! A Day of Honouring Fatherhood
Father's Day! A Day of Honouring Fatherhood Do you think a father is as important as a mother is or is he not? Father's Day is a day of honouring fatherhood, and the influence of fathers in society. In America, Father's Day was founded by Sonora Smart Dodd and celebrated on the third Sunday of June for the first time in 1910. The day is held on various dates across the world and different regions maintain their own traditions of honouring fatherhood. All of us know that a father is just as important for a child as the mother is. If mothers are the heroes of child rearing, significance of father in the development and emotional well-being of a child is no less. Children depend on their father for their spiritual, emotional, physical, financial and social well-being. For daughters, father is the ideal man in the world and also the first man they adore, while for sons, father is an idol and the strongest man they aspire to emulate. Fathers are central to the e...