As simple as it gets...
In 1994, our Congress unanimously passed a bill (Public Law #103-362) to create a national observance for parents. On October 14 of the same year, President Bill Clinton did sign the bill into law, thereby finally also establishing National Parents Day. 2010 will mark the sixteenth celebration of Parents Day. Since 1994, this same law has commanded every single citizen, organization, and government official, all over and throughout America, to get together and celebrate the importance of Parents.
Parents Day celebrations across America
While the President automatically gets handed his Parents Day Proclamation every year to sign, so Clinton issued his first one in 1995, and Bush signed his eighth one in 2008, Mr. Obama - amazingly - did not follow suit for his first Parents Day in office.
So, it was decided that an appropriate level of nationwide, simultaneous recognition and gratitude, worthy enough to celebrate the very most basic unit of our civilized society - parents and children, together as family - was long overdue: everywhere!
Accordingly, for 2010, the stage was set for celebrating the importance of parents and family in nearly every county seat and major city, all over America, plus seven different regional cities were chosen to highlight 'coming together as family' events, including at Sacramento, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Jacksonville, DC, and Boston.
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To be the betterest Parents we can be
At the heart of the matter, of course, is celebrating the ideals of being great parents to children. And so, having the tools, resources, and freedom, in order to be the very best parents that we can possibly be, was an original design element planned for all Parents Day events, everywhere. At the seven regional ParentStock events, you can interact with many individuals, groups, and organizations representing Faith, Family, Freedom, Finances, Food, Fun, Fanfare and more. The same is prayed for all events.
The typical American Parent can face daunting challenges, not only for themselves, with the current dilemma of the Economy, rising unemployment rates, the national homeownership crisis, growing fuel and energy costs, and prices of nearly everything going up, but it is also becoming tougher and tougher to raise well-adjusted, healthy, and successful children, with decline of society's morals and values, apparently increasing lack of self-responsibility, lesser church attendance, and with school systems failing the grade.
In keeping with the goals of the National Parents Day Council, but also enhancing those goals with creating ways to meet daily needs of today's parents and families, the regional events are expecting many fine churches from over three dozen of the largest Christian denominations in America, area Fortune 500 and more businesses, interested local nonprofits, and corresponding government officials and entities, as well as family organizations, talented entertainers, and various people and groups to all come together, and even to be presenters, by speaking or providing seminars.
Parents of the Year Awards!
Don't forget! One of the annual activities for Parents Day is most definitely giving credit where credit is due. Whether within your company, your church, your town, your city, your organization, your county, your state, or whatever, don't forget also to nominate, select, and give appropriate award to your own Parents of the Year!
Following along to award criteria instituted by the National Parents Day Council, your pair of candidates will both plainly deserve the merit of such important honor.
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