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The “Mother’s Day Proclamation” by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe’s feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.

Today, the proclamation is included in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition.

Mother’s Day Proclamation

Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly:

“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,

Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a judge, according to a study released on Wednesday.

A mother who works outside the home would earn an extra $85,876 annually on top of her actual wages for the work she does at home, according to the study by Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts Salary.com.

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How do you like to spend Mother’s Day. If renting movies is your thing here is our recommendation for the top 10 mother’s day movies available in your local rental store. If your watch more than one in a 24 hour period be sure to have lots of kleenex on hand because they are, for the most part, major tear-jerkers.

honorable mention. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
10. Pride and Prejudice
09. Steel Magnolias
08. Parenthood
07. Terms of Endearment
06. Hope Floats
05. Bend it Like Beckham

AND our top picks for Mother’s Day Marathon weekend

04. The Notebook
03. Finding Neverland
02. Dear Frankie
01. Millions

For a good tear jerk weekend that will make you love being a mom, the top 4 are our top picks. Log into the discussion board to let us know what your favorite Mother’s Day movies are or how you like any of the movies listed above.

We started the Stay at Home Mom newsletter in 1989 (at that time it was a desktop publishing project using a mac desktop computer and kinko’s copy center to print off the newsletters). Our focus was on relaying positive messages to moms and to focus on the Stay at Home Mom bookclub.
At that time all of the kids running around the Stay at Home Mom Headquarters were all teeny tiny.
Now those same little tykes are all teenagers and starting to drive and think about what college they want to attend.
It is nice being able to sleep through the night now and being able to take a shower without worrying about what the kids are doing during that few short minutes that we take our eyes off of them. At the same time, there is a wierd feeling of apprehension and a sense of being a little unsettled at the thought of having any one of these darling babies move out on their own.
I wasn’t really being able to pinpoint this feeling until I got a phone call from our bookclub editor who relayed very similar feelings. Although her daughter is one year younger and so not going to move out for a few years but she was prepping for it already.
So, it is very cliche but for all of you out there still changing diapers and waking up in the middle of the night just to check your darling baby just to make sure they’re breathing ok, take a few minutes every day to soak in that special time with your darling baby. The time truly does fly by. And then, when they are teenagers you can take a moment and marvel at the wonderful and interesting and unique people they have become. It is so amazing to me to see these little guys become big guys and go out with ideas of their own and make their own way in the world. It is a marvel. Soak it up -