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NETHERLANDS: The shape of a mother
My mother used to say the same thing whenever I was sick: “Well, your hands are not sick.” She expected me to do my chores and not to make a big deal about being sick. It was a motto she lived by. When I think of her in those days, I cannot picture her sitting down or...
BRAZIL: Zika Virus – Weighing On The Minds Of Moms
In my home country of Brazil, the Zika virus has been on the minds of pregnant mothers. As a matter of fact, I’ve even had the virus myself. Zika is transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, and more recently, there has been evidence that it can be transmitted sexually or...
UAE: Parenting Tips from Harry Potter
My husband is a New Yorker whose theatergoing parents always planned their theater outings well in advance. He’s adopted this same long-range planning attitude, and that’s how we ended up with tickets to “the Harry Potter play” this past September. In a fit of jet-lag...
World Voice: Praying and Advocating for Education
On a summer trip with our American martial arts school, my daughter and I were able to visit a very special place in South Korea. Haedong Yonggungsa Temple is a beautiful seaside Buddhist temple on the coast of the northeastern portion of the city of Busan. Most...
A Big Week of Travel for Two #WorldMoms Network Editors
There is some exciting traveling coming up for two of our editors at World Moms Network! One is embarking on her first trip to the US to connect with fellow World Moms, and the other is packing up well-needed supplies and heading to Haiti to support and learn from...
USA: Haiti in the Wake of Hurricane Matthew
62,000 people. That is the estimated number of Haitians who are still displaced from the 7.0 earthquake that shook Haiti in January 2010; a heartbreaking disaster that claimed over 200,000 lives and displaced as many as 3 million people. Kendy, Naomie, Emilien, Mrs....
SOUTH AFRICA: Unwritten
On my way to work this morning, the song "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield played on the radio. I've heard the song many times before. This morning, I really paid attention to the lyrics for the first time, and reflected upon my own goals. Many of us feel trapped in...
NEW ZEALAND: How Facebook Saved Me
Maybe you're the same? I get teased a lot about my Facebook use. But not by people who get it. Five years ago, I was in a miserable marriage and experiencing phenomenally low energy levels. I wonder now if I was bordering on depression. I had a nine year-old, a six...
USA: @SaveTheChildren Lights Up Empire State Building Red for Girls’ Rights #SheShines
Look UP, New Yorkers!!! For the first time EVER the Empire State Building is RED today for International Day of the Girl!! This morning, World Moms Network was invited to cover Save the Children's lighting of the Empire State Building in New York City. The ceremony...
WORLD VOICE: International Day of the Girl
Today we celebrate girls around the world for International Day of the Girl. In 2012 the U.N. declared October 11th as The International Day of The Girl. In 2016 Girls and women are still dispropotionately facing discrimination, oppression, and subjugation around...
Did you catch Orana Velarde’s post on @BabyCenter?
As part of World Moms Blog’s collaboration with BabyCenter’s Mission Motherhood®, our World Moms have been writing posts on maternal health around the world. We have made it to the finish line, and this is the last and 24th post in the incredible one-year series!...
UK: Learning Not to Judge Others
As parents there are so many things we want to teach our children. Of course we want them to grow up to be well-rounded adults who are kind, compassionate, humble, resilient, loving, fun and display sound judgement but each of these traits takes time to develop and...
Have you heard about our upcoming mini-shop?
In our weekly newsletter we have previously announced that we plan to have a World Moms Network mini-market set up by the end of the year. Well, things are moving more quickly than expected, and we should have it set up by November! World Moms Network will have about...
USA: Voting from Abroad
There are an estimated 2.6 million eligible American voters living abroad, and every one of them has the right to register and vote via absentee ballot. I am proud to count myself among the millions of U.S. citizens voting from abroad. I cast my ballot last week,...
INDONESIA: Our Hearing Loss Journey
A year ago, when our daughter was nearly 8 years old, we found out that she has profound hearing loss in her left ear. We had been concerned about her hearing since she was in preschool. Her class teacher assuaged our worries and subsequent teachers never raised any...
Did you catch Jennifer Burden’s post on @BabyCenter?
As part of World Moms Blog’s collaboration with BabyCenter’s Mission Motherhood®, our World Moms are writing posts on maternal health around the world. In today’s post, Jennifer Burden writes about Jacaranda Health's impact on maternal health in Kenya. "Whether you...
GLOW: #Heartfulness – Inspiration Through Meditation by #WorldMom Sophia
I ask my one year old son: “Who is Wesley?” His eyes brighten up as he remembers this question, and he happily and proudly answers “I”. He seems happy and proud because he knows our reaction to his showings of intelligence; not because he really understands that he is...
World Voice: The Current Status of #ChibokGirls #BringBackOurGirls
6th September 2016 is the day that President Buhari of Nigeria decided to get his dictator skin back on by sending police to stop #BringBackOurGirls peaceful procession. This same President who during the elections campaigns had said, "so before you is a former...
Did you catch Purnima Ramakrishnan’s latest post on @BabyCenter?
As part of World Moms Blog’s collaboration with BabyCenter’s Mission Motherhood®, our World Moms are writing posts on maternal health around the world. In today’s post, Purnima Ramakrishnan interviewed a doctor in her local hospital, Dr. Vijila Christian, who is the...
NETHERLANDS: What happened to our son
While bombs are being dropped on rescue convoys in Syria again, while moms have to worry about mosquitos giving their children diseases and deformities, while there are moms out there losing their whole family due to war, hunger and hatred, and mothers who have to...
ISRAEL: Goodbye, Shimon Peres
It's funny how the loss of someone you don't personally know can hit you so hard. Since Shimon Peres passed away I've been spontaneously bursting into tears. He was the grandfather of the Israeli nation and the last of its founding fathers. He was an inspiration and...
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