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USA: Cooking with Kids
Cooking with kids is one of my favorite activities. I have to admit, I don't do it often enough. Mostly because of the limited space in our kitchen where two is a crowd. My parents would let us kids into the kitchen as often as they could. We were cooking family...
JORDAN: When cancer called, I called my tribe
Not everything that happens in life is warm and fuzzy and wonderful. Sometimes life is absolutely terrifying and paralyzing. This has been one of those weeks. Without sharing too many of the gorey details, it’s enough to say that I am now missing a golf ball size...
WORLD VOICE: Moms + Social Good Recap 2016 (Updated)
World Moms Elizabeth Atalay, Tes Silverman and Founder Jennifer Burden met up at the 4th annual Moms + Social Good conference last Thursday at the New York Times Center in New York City. The one day event was hosted by The United Nations Foundation and Johnson &...
FRANCE: Finding the Balance
Over the past few years, I realized that it was important for me to get to know who I am, to love myself (without condition), to create my space, to find some “me” time so I could deal with motherhood, work and daily life, peacefully and with an open heart. This way,...
World Moms Share Mother’s Day Traditions 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, we are celebrating Mother's Day by sharing photos and thoughts on the holiday from around the...
#HappyMothersDay: #Heartfulness Meditation Within Motherhood
#Heartfulness Meditation Within Motherhood Engaging in daily meditation is a thought I have had for many years. Fortunately I finally began practicing it a few months ago through Heartfulness Meditation. I choose the word 'finally' carefully because as much as it is...
USA: Meditating With My Terrible Two
When meditation became the big thing last year, just like yoga in the 1970s, my editor at Taiwan’s Commonwealth Parenting Magazine wanted me to write a piece about meditating with children. So I interviewed Jeff Zlotnik of Meditation Initiative for this...
UAE: Football, Feminism, and Raising Boys
The other day I went to my teenage son’s soccer tournament, and because his game was delayed, I watched a girls’ match finish on the other field. Actually, thanks to the British history in Abu Dhabi, I should say that I went to the “football fixture,” watched the...
JAPAN: To Cram Or Not To Cram
As my son begins sixth grade, the final year of elementary school here in Japan, I feel a sense of panic. Have I taught him all he needs to know to navigate the choppy waters of adolescence? (Mental note: enroll him in swimming lessons while I am still master of his...
WORLD VOICE: Happy #MothersDay to the Supermoms
This Sunday, many moms in the United States will be celebrated with crepe paper flowers, homemade artwork, and breakfasts made with love and varying levels of quality control as tradition dictates. No matter how many kids you have or what country you live in, I wish...
On Twitter? Join us 9pm EDT for @Preeclampsia with @Finnegan_Hughes! #PreAM16
Did you know we have a World Mom on board who is very active in running the Promise Walk for Preeclampsia? Sarah Hughes in the USA, has organized a walk each year for the past 5 years and has raised 10's of thousands of dollars for the Preeclampsia Foundation. What...
SPECIAL REPORT: Our Family’s Plea after the #EcuadorEarthquake
In the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Ecuador, the people of my husband's home country are on our minds and in our hearts, and we are very much in touch. Today, I am giving them a voice on World Moms Blog... Ecuador is the home of the Galapagos Islands,...
BRAZIL: What to do when our role models die?
I believe that everyone, in some way or another, has a second (or more) set of “parents”. This is a broad definition of parents I am using here – they may be people who cared for you when your biological parents were having problems, such as grandparents or aunts and...
SOUTH AFRICA: Where Two Oceans Meet
I recently posted this photo of my twin children on my Facebook page with the caption “Where two oceans meet…” The double entendre was on purpose, albeit private since I only shared the fact that the location was Cape Point, South Africa, where the Atlantic and Indian...
NEW ZEALAND: In Praise of Bad Examples
It's one of those things I never saw coming before I was a mother: The value of adults behaving badly around my children. In fairness, most of the adults my boys get to interact with are fine people, who behave with maturity, have decent principles and who take...
SOUTH AFRICA: The Soundtrack of our Lives
Recently I started practicing Heartfulness Meditation. It is when you are trying not to think about anything that you truly realise how your brain is never quiet! No matter what we're doing, there's a constant commentary going on. Most of the time we're not...
USA: My Favorite Relationship Dos and Don’ts
I love post-prompts like this one, as they make me think about my everyday actions, especially the ones that come out of habits I created overtime, and no longer think about. Let’s get right to it and I’ll say that even though some of my dos and don’ts apply to...
SOUTH AFRICA: Surviving the Turmoil
I recently read a very thought-provoking post by a fellow #WorldMom with the title of My Frame World. In it, she wrote, The manageable reality is my reference, a framework to enable me to keep functioning. It enables me to get up at a quarter past seven to cut some...
PHILIPPINES: The Value of Grandparents
I don't know if many people will agree to this but we Filipinos are known for having close-knit family ties, wherever we might be located in the world. We cherish our relationships with the members of our family, and love spending time together -- eating, chatting,...
WORLD VOICE: ISIS And Birth Control
Sex trafficking has been a huge issue in developing countries and an alarming issue has surfaced with regard to ISIS fighters and women they’ve captured. It has come to light that ISIS fighters use birth control to continue raping their captives. A...
SCOTLAND: A Land Of Beauty
Scotland is the northernmost country in the U.K. and its peoples, who have included Picts, Gaels and Scots, have a rich and colourful history. Many people have heard of Macbeth, King of Scots (the Eleventh Century monarch who was immortalised by Shakespeare), and...
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