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SPECIAL REPORT: World Moms Speak Out on #PeshawarAttack
As World Moms, the school massacre in Peshawar, Pakistan is not just "their" issue, it's our issue too. We are shaken to the core. December is supposed to be a month filled with hope, joy, peace and love. It is a month of holidays, coming together and sharing our...
SOCIAL GOOD: Global Guide to Giving Good
In October, several #WorldMoms attended the ONE Girls & Women AYA Summit at the Google Headquarters in Washington, DC. One of the many powerful panels we heard from was entitled Change Through Economic Opportunity, where both major fashion companies and small...
NETHERLANDS: Full
When people find out I have three kids, they tell me: "Oh you must have your hands full." Many mom bloggers rage against this because they feel that there’s contempt hidden behind these words. They feel it means that we have too many children, that we are crazy, out...
TEXAS, USA: The Age Old Question
Last week as I was driving my children to school, my son asked me out of the blue “Mom, what do you do all day when we are at school?” My daughter chimed in with,” Yeah…what DO you do all day?” I am a stay at home mom, and I am used to being asked this question by...
SPECIAL REPORT: @WhiteHouse and #StudyAbroadBecause #WHTravelBloggers
What I learned at the White House Travel Blogger Summit this week…! On Tuesday, December 9, 2014, the White House invited over 100 social media influencers in travel and global citizenship to Washington, D.C. to discuss study abroad programs for students. Puzzled...
STUDY ABROAD: Japan
When I was eight years old, my mom moved from our home, outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to start a new life for herself in Los Angeles, California. Growing up on the East Coast of the US, in the 1970's, I had been exposed to only small pockets of Asian,...
Abu Dhabi Knife Attack: Death and Orientalism
“Are you okay?” The emails and Facebook queries began pouring in even before I knew what had happened. “Were you there?” One particularly dramatic friend asked if “what happened” made me think about moving home. Their queries followed the terrible news that had gone...
SOCIAL GOOD: Human Rights Day Activities for You & Your Kids!
Each year on December 10, people all around the world celebrate Human Rights Day. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption on 10 December 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global statement of...
UK: Interview with Michelle Pannell AKA Mummy from the Heart
Hi all, I'm really pleased to have been invited to become a contributor to the World Moms Blog and I look forward to being able to share my British parenting perspective and getting to know you all. Mich x Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? I...
WASHINGTON, USA: Binging on Nostalgia
Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to my hometown to attend my high school reunion. I was excited about the trip for several reasons. I rarely travel without my children, and this visit was just for me. I would be able to see my parents, my sisters, and...
INDONESIA: Too Much…Stuff
This month marks our third anniversary of living in Jakarta. Considering how empty our house was when we first arrived here, I am staggered at how much stuff we have acquired in that short time. We initially started out with garden chairs as living room furniture and...
GUEST POST: To the Market
What is To the Market and how did it get started? TO THE MARKET | Survivor-made Goods (TTM) combines the powers of commerce and storytelling to empower the world’s most courageous survivor populations. We’ve developed a three-pronged social enterprise model that we...
#WorldMoms on @ONECampaign Blog to Support #ENDEbola for #GivingTuesday
This Giving Tuesday, World Moms Blog contributors from 5 continents are on the ONE Campaign blog speaking out in support to help end Ebola. From Nigeria to Indonesia to Belgium to New Zealand to the USA mothers support donating to help end the Ebola outbreak and...
SOCIAL GOOD: On #GivingTuesday Help Doctors Without Borders #ENDEbola with @WGirlsINC
World news cycles through our Facebook feeds, blogrolls, and across our Television screens at lightning speed these days. Just four weeks ago most of our nation was riveted by the play by play updates about Ebola, and it was impossible to escape the news. Was Ebola...
SOCIAL GOOD: Behind AIDS – Perspectives from Canada and Tanzania
I am by no means an expert on HIV or AIDS. In fact, other than knowing some basic statistics and facts on transmission, I have never really given much thought to the social implications of living with the virus. This wasn’t intentional, but most likely the result of...
BELGIUM: The Adopted Little Sailor
In preparation for our adoption, we had to take an intensive course, dealing with the many dynamics involved. A while later, our gained knowledge, but also our personal history, relationship, parenting skills and social network were scrutinized by a social worker and...
Sponsored: UN Women Has Vital Impact on Women Worldwide #GivingTuesday
If you've been reading World Moms Blog and follow us on social media, you probably already have your ears up to issues that affect women and girls around the world from our global contributors. In some places women and girls are not given the right to an education,...
MEXICO: Life Lessons with Mexico Mom
As a wife of one and a mom of four, it seems like I am always learning and discovering! I know I am not alone. Let's just admit it: The world is a big place, life is a lesson, and children can be the best teachers. Normally my series, Life Lessons with Mexico Mom,...
NEW JERSEY, USA: Parenting: The Real, The Ancient and The Pixie Dust #DisneyKids
Many of the global issues we cover on World Moms Blog are very serious, and I spend a lot of time on them because they are important to me and the #WorldMoms. But, when Disney recently provided the parents on it's Disney Social Media Moms mailing list the opportunity...
#BlackBoysMatter
#BlackBoysMatter Positive Images of Black Boys in Protest of Ferguson Tragedy Mocha Moms, Inc. members, many of whom are the mothers of sons, are outraged by the failure to indict Darren Wilson in the Michael Brown, Ferguson grand jury case. But we realize we can’t...
SAUDI ARABIA: No Girls Allowed
I grew up in a house full of girls with one baby brother, who was so much younger than me that our friends and social lives didn't overlap. Now that I am the mother of three boys and one girl, I am learning many things I never knew about boys: they are more...
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