Fathers Day Cards - Celebrate Your Dad

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In the United States Fathers Day is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday, of the month of June. In 1972, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed this to be a national holiday. Although celebrating dads happens all over the world on different dates and has for hundreds of years, there are few clues to origins of the American Father’s Day. Father's Day complements Mother's Day, which is celebrated just a month earlier in the year. Father's Day took much longer to become an official holiday, as many people feared it becoming commercialized. Because of the existence of Mother's Day, it only seemed appropriate that father's day would too exist, giving thanks to both parents and not just one. Much of the credit of the creation of Father's Day goes to Sonora Smart Dodd, whose father, a Civil war veteran, raised her and her five siblings after their mother died in childbirth. She had the idea during a sermon on one of the First Mother's Day celebrations in 1909. From Spokane, Washington, she proposed a celebration of Fathers and local religious supported the idea, making June 1910 the first celebration of Fathers Day.

Fathers Day celebrates ...
... the parental guidance of fathers, and the relationship that children have with their fathers. It is customary to give gifts, spend time doing family activities and give Fathers Day cards. Giving aFathers Day card can be a simple but meaningful gesture saying “I love you!” For those who live far from their dad's, fathers day cards allow you to contact your parent in a thoughtful way.

There are so many different kinds of Fathers Day cards that can reflect the relationship you have with your dad. To add a personal touch, you can customize a Fathers Day card on Tinyprints.com. Here you can upload your on photos, and write your own card text, to create a fathers day card that is meaningful and personal to you and him.

Often parents and children are separated by cities, states and even countries. So many miles away from our parents can make it difficult to show them that we appreciate them. Fathers Day cards are a great way to say "I'm thinking about you", whether you live close by or across the sea.