We have just spent Father`s Day.

     “I know I can’t be the only person to notice it, but doesn’t it seem that there’s a fantastic amount of marketing and attention driven towards mothers, and very little devoted to fathers? It’s almost like the role of fathers has been completely dismissed, which is odd when contrasted with the incredible amount of noise that has been broadcast about “family values.” Beyond the obvious thing about “family values” really only amounting to censorship of what the anti-intellectuals don’t like because it offends their delicate little sensibilities and avoiding the responsibility of simply changing the channel, the value of the father within the family unit is that the father completes the family unit. Hopefully, this father’s day Daddy will start to get the kind of press that he deserves, and he had better get the big piece of chicken.”said Peter Stone.

     That us talk about the gift card in USA.The most popular gift for Dads—and often the only one he’ll get—is a greeting card. All told, an estimated 110 million cards are sent on Father’s Day, according to the greeting card company Hallmark.

     This makes Father’s Day the fourth largest card-sending holiday in the U.S., behind Mother’s Day (162 million), Valentine’s Day (192 million), and Christmas (2.1 billion).

     Fifty percent of Father’s Day cards are purchased for dads and another 20 percent for husbands. The remaining 30 percent fall into a broad “other” category, according to Deidre Mize, a Hallmark spokesperson.

     “It might be someone who served as a father role. Or it could be a stepdad. … ” she said. The Father’s Day card business, according to the retail federation, will ring up about $780 million this year. Read more »

     Valentine’s Day,Full of Love.

     It is a day for lovers.Well ,I am still single now,so I can not taste the happiness.Love is a permanent topic all over the world,because we have to create a family.So a man will show love to a woman,and love is produced.Very romantic!

     I am not very familiar with the history of this festival.So I cut some words from wikipedia.org.Valentine’s Day or Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

     The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of “valentines”. Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards. The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America, where many Valentine cards are now general greeting cards rather than declarations of love, was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States. Read more »