Holiday Every Day

by Kseniia Semenova

Feb 16  Today is Do a Grouch a Favour Day, Almond Day, Innovation Day, Tartar Day and Tim-Tam Day, so you choose what to celebrate today and how to celebrate it. 

Feb 17 Random act of kindness day  

There is a whole foundation RAK, and you can be a part of it. It was created in Denver, Colorado in 1995. It is an amazing safe place that teaches kids and adults how to be kind. There is an even a book about practicing a random act of kindness by Anne Herbert from 1982 

Today is good to watch the movie, Pay it Forward

Feb 18 Battery day 

This day was commemorated to Alessandro Volta in 1745 who invented the electric battery. Let’s raise the awareness that little kids may try to swallow them and need to go directly to the emergency room! Before you go with them to the hospital you need to give them honey to neutralize the poison and rush to the hospital. Also, it’s never safe to charge your phones and other gadgets on the bed next to you while you are sleeping! 

Feb 19 Family Day  

This day in 1990 was proclaimed as a holiday and a day off, how wonderful it was to have a day off on Monday to spend with family. In the neighboring country, they celebrate a president’s day, the birthday of George Washington. 

Feb 20 Cherry Pie Day

This day is also given a patent for handcuffs in 1912, so this day we also celebrate the official day of a new swinging bow rachet that allowed to keep a criminal subject secure without using a key. Now they are even more modernized, and some have fur. 

Feb 21 begins Nestbox Week. It is awareness week for people to help and understand due to the environmental changes, birds have less places to nest and how to make their homes. Usually, you can see even some nests birds make of some random pieces of plastic. In Ukraine, people make birds houses especially for birds who are coming back after the winter from warm countries to help them to nest and procreate. This week can make some houses for birds in your community and watch a very nice movie by a local director Ted Bezaire, The Birder.

Feb 22 This day is full of very interesting holidays like a dog walker day. That began in the 1960s when Jim Buck began walking dogs whose owners were busy professionals in New York city. Also, this day Girl Scouts around the world celebrate Thinking Day that is one of the most important holidays for them, this day they accommodate the idea about general idea of diversity, inclusivity, being equal and bigger issues impacting themselves and the communities around them and the world.