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Contact: John Ross jpr@gospel-net.com or (630) 879-8828

Kids Need “Children’s Day” in 2024
— America shows it deserves the day. —

BATAVIA, Ill., May 28, 2024 — It is over two weeks since Mother’s Day. Children’s Day 2024 is set for Sunday June 9. It is a day that America is missing.

“The tragic events of children and gun violence show that our country needs a deeper commitment to its children. Yes, kids need Children’s Day. Our commitment as individuals and a community is to love our children on this special Sunday and throughout the year. This is a call to action.”, notes John Ross, advocate for Children’s Day, #KidsNeedChildrensDayon the second Sunday in June.

Ross is part of an informal grass-roots movement spear-headed by the website https://www.nationalchildrensday.us/. This site and many others hope the attitude of Americans will change regarding a special day for children. And building on this hope is commitment to ongoing betterment of our children.

Here are a few statistics that show the care our children must have. By establishing a National Children’s Day in the United States, these concerns can be brought forefront:

Governors of the state of Illinois have proclaimed the second Sunday in June to be Children’s Day.” The cities of Aurora, Ill.; Batavia, Ill.; Yorkville, Ill..; and other such cities have issued past proclamations as well.

Children’s Day
 observations in the United States predate both Mother’s and Father’s Day. The day to celebrate children dates from the 1860s and earlier. The Methodist Episcopal Church at the Methodist Conference of 1868 recommended that the second Sunday in June be observed annually as Children’s Day. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1883 designated the “the second Sabbath in June as Children’s Day.”

Chase’s Calendar of Events cites Children’s Sunday and notes that The Commonwealth of Massachusetts issues an annual proclamation.

Numerous churches and denominations websites show observations of the second Sunday in June including the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Reformed Church in America.

The Children’s Day website, https://www.nationalchildrensday.us/, offers help and challenges parents, individuals, churches/houses of worship, schools/places of education, government/community and businesses to sign commitment cards directed at affirming America’s children. Pledging to “commit myself/ourselves, in the next year, to love, cherish, nurture (physical, mental, emotional, & spiritual needs) and affirm.”

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