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WORLD VOICE: CELEBRATING WORLD AIDS DAY WITH BONO AND @ONECampaign
This past December, I accepted an invitation from the ONE Campaign to meet at Carnegie Hall for World AIDS Day, and Bono and the Edge would be playing. It was an event for some of their most active anti-poverty advocates. I met my husband that evening in New York...
Meet Our #Worldmoms From Asia and Australasia – Part 2
Last fortnight we met a few #WorldMoms from Asia and Australasia. This week on the blog, we meet these exciting bloggers from Asia. They are funny, kind, inspirational, and most importantly moms who are here to make a difference and change the world! *** *** ***...
WORLD VOICE: Save a Life in your sleep with Goodbye Malaria
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito”.‐ African proverb The figures are staggering. According to the World Health Organization: “About 3.2 billion people – nearly half of the world’s population – are at risk of...
FRANCE: Bi-Cultural Child And Single Motherhood
I think it’s important when raising a bi-cultural child to find a balance between both the mother's and the father's upbringing and cultural backgrounds. The truth is, it’s not always that simple. As a single mom who is raising a Half-French, Half-Egyptian boy, I can...
USA: The Motherhood Penalty
A Chinese publisher is hiring me to write a biography for a well-known Chinese American doctor and politician. They wanted 300,000 words by the end of this year. I made it clear that it’s not possible. Considering the long-term contracts I already have, my family...
KENYA: Our Favorite Kenyan Children’s Books
We are big readers in our house, and we have proudly curated a wonderful collection of books for our girls. Both my husband and I want to be sure that our children are strongly exposed to both Kenyan and American culture, so we have made sure we have plenty of books...
World Mom, Tina Santiago-Rodriguez is 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, Tina Santiago-Rodriguez in the Philippines writes about milk sharing after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)...
WORLD VOICE: #WorldMoms Support Clean Birth
World Moms Blog has been supporting the mission of CleanBirth.org, founded by contributor Krysin Zalota, from the beginning. After all, we are a group of moms here, so it has made us even more compassionate to the need for safe, sterile birth for the sake of both...
UAE: Forget Esperanto, Does Anyone Speak Teenager?
Frequently I am embarrassed by the fact that I only speak one language. Many of my friends in Abu Dhabi speak at least two, and most of my students speak three or even four. A few years ago I tried to learn Arabic and was stymied by a simple fact: my brain is old....
USA: Wisdom from a Stranger
It’s been the kind of month in which the worn down clasp on my emotional baggage has popped open, spilling years of contents everywhere in disarray. I have been methodically working through the cleanup, but today, I felt the need to wander in nature for a mental...
Meet Our #Worldmoms From Asia and Australasia
Every Wednesday we enjoy an article written by one of our mom bloggers in Asia/Australasia Region. Today we decided to run a series featuring the mom bloggers from that region and learn a little bit about their blogs and why they loved World Moms Blog. Some of us are...
WORLD VOICE: Interview With World Mom Tes Silverman of Pinay Perspective
Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? My name is Tes Silverman and I live in Huntington, NY but I was born in Manila, Philippines. What language(s) do you speak? I speak English but I also speak some French and a little Tagalog, which is the...
World Mom, Nicole Melancon, is on @BabyCenter Today!
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, Nicole Melancon in the USA writes about the importance of "Lie and Wait Houses" when it comes to...
POLAND: The Choice To Become A Stay-At-Home Parent
Think your intellectual and creative juices take a dive when you become a stay-at-home parent? Think again. A couple of years ago, I wrote a post for World Moms Blog about my decision to become a stay-at-home parent. Prior to staying at home, I was a U.S. diplomat...
USA: Selfish Self – Finding the Balance
A life coach (LC) once told me it is important to be selfish sometimes. She had to explain what she meant because for as long as I could remember, the word 'selfish' was synonymous with not caring about anyone other than yourself. Well, LC was one of the...
World Mom, Cindy Levin, is on @BabyCenter Today!
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, Cindy Levin in the USA writes... "Twelve years ago, as I rocked my baby through dark Chicago winter...
LESOTHO: Thoughts (and Anxieties) as an Expat Parent
My Parenting Anxieties as an Expat Right now I have a lot of parenting anxieties. One is over our transient lifestyle moving from one country to another every few years with our young children. Another is over my absence from my children as a full-time working and...
CANADA: Let’s Talk About Teen Depression
About a week before Halloween last year, a teenage boy named Joshua committed suicide. He had graduated Grade 8 at my son’s school just four months previously, and in September he had started attending the local high school across the road. Everything was going well....
WORLD VOICE: A Small, Pink Bag, A Nurse and You.
“When a mother receives the kit, she is happy. She feels that the kit will make her safe.” – Jun Ping, nurse, Tahoy District, Laos. It’s true: the Clean Birth Kits my organization CleanBirth.org provides pregnant women in southern Laos do make birth...
UK: The Online World Is Scary But I Won’t Let It Stop Me
Just before Christmas during a planned break from blogging, I happened to be checking my blog for something a client had asked for. As I logged in, I noticed a comment that required moderation on my little used review blog. It's practically retired now, but it has a...
USA: The Mirror
I don’t ever remember not feeling this way. I just know from an early age that I felt things a little deeper than my other friends or family. My feelings could be hurt so easily, and when I was little, I remember crying for days after my Grandma would leave from a...
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