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#WorldMoms at Google with @ONEWomenGirls for #AYASummit!
This week, a delegation of #WorldMoms is in Washington, DC for the ONE Campaign's Women and Girls' Summit (#AYASummit) cohosted with Google. The excitement of hearing from social good game changers such as author and NY Times columnist, Nick Kristof, Edith Jibunoh...
PHILIPPINES: Invest in Yourself
I was recently given the incredible opportunity to attend a life coaching seminar about investing in yourself. Truth be told, this wasn’t a subject that I had put any serious thought into before that day. Our speaker, the amazing Coach Pia from the One Core Group here...
GUEST POST: NIGERIA – #BringBackOurGirls
“My daughter said she was going to go to school so that she can wipe away my tears. How is she wiping my tears away in the den of the terrorists?” -mother of one of the #ChibokGirls, abducted on April 14th, 2014, speaking on Day 188 of their abduction -October 19th,...
WORLD VOICE: Justice and Love
We spend a lot of time talking about love in our house. When you are trying to teach a three-year-old about acceptable and unacceptable behavior, it comes up a lot. Some behaviors are loving; others are not. And why? Why, why, why? I spend all day coming up for the...
NEW ZEALAND: Time Out
On Saturday, I took a couple of hours out of my day just to be. It’s something I try to do a few times a week but hadn’t been able to, due to my three boys being at home for their spring school holidays. I love all three of them to bits and they are super kids. They...
NEW JERSEY, USA: Depression: what do I know?
What do I know about depression? Well, nothing. That much I know! But still, I feel compelled to write about it. Because I have only recently woken up to the devastation and despair associated with this illness and I am now looking at depression with a different set...
JAPAN: My Experience with a Japanese Hospital
My 6 year-old daughter had her tonsils and adenoids out over summer vacation. She had been diagnosed with sleep apnea several months earlier and since nothing else was helping, finally I reluctantly agreed to the surgery. I was reluctant because hospital "culture" in...
WORLD VOICE: Global Change-Makers Press the World Bank #AMCSO14
In the U.S., I find myself sometimes avoiding conflict in social situations. My kids…well, not so much... "You can't take that, it's mine!!!" Or... "She is writing on the kitchen table!", while my girls battle for a crayon. Or... "If you knock over my blocks, I'm...
NETHERLANDS: The Perfect Fit
I've always had trouble knowing where to fit in. I have never known which box I was supposed to climb in or which label to stick on my forehead. I was born in Surinam, but most of my life I have lived in the Netherlands. My parents had a strong sense of culture and...
INDIA: #DayOfTheGirl Celebrating Girlhood With Murals In School
In celebration of International Day of the Girl, our Senior Editor in India, Purnima Ramakrishnan, interviewed the heads of a very special school in India. What she learned and felt was nothing short of amazing... I was ushered in, inside the Vice-Principal’s room...
MEXICO: New Writer Interview with Tina Marie Ernspiker
Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? I live in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, which is located in the Southern mountains of Mexico. I was born in Michigan, USA in 1979 and my family moved to Kentucky, USA in 1990. I grew up in a beautiful, small,...
SINGAPORE: When Parents Break the Rules
Among all the parenting rules in the book, no quarreling in front of the kids must rank pretty high up there. But, it's the one that my husband and I have been flouting a lot lately, when our little five-year-old is around. And while we don't choose to quarrel in full...
The World Bank and IMF — Can They Really “END POVERTY”? #amsco14
About 10+ years ago I worked in Washington, D.C. as a financial analyst, and when the World Bank meetings were coming up nearby my office, my then employer, the Federal Reserve Board, would caution us about the protests surrounding the event. We were told to take a...
NETHERLANDS: If That Had Been Me
My eldest daughter and I are waiting in line at the chocolaterie. We both love ice cream and we’re discussing which one we would like best. My girl is impatient, giddy, excited. She wants ice cream and she wants it right now! But she can’t have it just yet because the...
FLORIDA, USA: My Baby’s Apple
"Yes please, yes please, yes pleeeeease!" is what I hear almost every time my toddler sees or hears my phone. If she does not get it, she isn't too happy. She may move on to playing with something else, but sometimes comes back pointing at where she last saw my phone,...
PHILIPPINES: An Open Letter to the Mom Who Feels Like a Failure #WorldMoms
It's been a while since I've written a post here on World Moms Blog, and I'm honored to be back with another open letter. This was inspired by a very recent event in my own life — when I felt that I had failed as a mother, particularly as a homeschooling mom to...
ISRAEL: The Most Important Building Block of All
I love watching little kids discover the excitement of building blocks. Their pudgy little fingers slowly stack one brick on top of another squealing with amazement when the lopsided house they built comes tumbling down. Kids might not realize it, but we all know that...
SOCIAL GOOD: An Interview With Save The Children Ambassador Jennifer Garner
"OPTIMISM", Jennifer Garner chose the word optimism when we interviewed her about her work with Save The Children and the #FindTheWords campaign. My word had been "LEAD", Jen Burden's was "CREATE", and Stacey Hoffer Weckstein of Evolving Stacey, who did the interview...
BELGIUM: Pizza Night Therapy
On Wednesday the 3rd of September, our oven broke down in the middle of a pizza. We only have pizza about once a year, so the kids were looking forward to it like crazy. Italians, be warned, what comes next must be hard to digest. I warmed up the pizza in the...
TEXAS, USA: Fair Is Not Always Equal
If you will have, do have, or have ever had a nine year old boy in your life, you have probably heard this ever common, often blood curdling statement, “That’s not fair!” I hear it multiple times a day from my own nine year old son. I thought it was a phrase which...
INDONESIA: Travels and Trade-offs
From the window, I can hear high-pitched giggles and the sound of wellington boots on garden path gravel. My daughter is next door with her new neighbor friend, pretending that the garden shed is an animal rescue center and the backyard chickens are actually wild...
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