Father's Day 2019 is almost upon us, but when is the all-important date when we treat our dads?
Father's Day is on the third Sunday of every June and this year it's on Sunday, June 16 .
This year why not send your dad a special message with a free posting in the South Wales Echo or South Wales Evening Post - you can find out how to do that, here.
How did Father's Day begin?
There are several accounts of its origins and history. Many historians believe Grace Golden Clayton was the founder of the first Father’s Day in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908 after Monongah, a nearby town, suffered a mine explosion killing more than 360 men.
More than 200 of these men were fathers and left behind their widows and more than 1,000 sons and daughters prompting Grace to initiate the idea of a special day for fathers to be honoured and remembered.
Others, however, attribute the origins of Father’s Day to another American woman named Sonora Louise Smart in Spokane, Washington.
After her mother died in childbirth with her sixth child, and her dad brought up the family. Sonora was attending a church sermon held for Mother's Day when she first thought fatherhood should also be celebrated.
It took until the next year to get off the ground, with the first Father's Day celebrated in 1910 in the USA, but didn't really take off until 1938 when the Father's Day Council founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers, helped promote the celebration.
Even then it was met with some resistance and seen by many as solely a commercial opportunity. But now it is a well established celebration.
