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INDONESIA: Why Indonesians Don’t Celebrate Father’s Day
Would you believe me if I tell you I have NEVER heard of Father’s Day until I moved to America in 2005. Yes, true story! Here in Indonesia we just simply don’t have Father’s Day. We do have Mother’s Day on December 22, 2014. The holiday is celebrated on the...
It’s How You Live Your Years That Matters
Had she not been a patient of mine and had my eye not been trained to see the telltale insults that cancer leaves on a body, I never would have known that her life was anything but perfect. There are people like that in the world. People who smile through the worst....
GUEST POST: Greek Super Grans
The greatest invention EVER!!! I hope that all you moms out there are coping with and even ENJOYING your summer vacation! Having kids at home all day and every day can be challenging even for the most organized, and creative of us, especially if we also have to work...
WE’RE ON BLOGCATION, July 7-20
See you in two weeks with new and fresh posts from around the world!! We're on our annual summer/winter Blogcation' and we'll be back on Monday, July 21st! In the meantime, we hope you'll enjoy our daily dose of previous WMB posts!
UNITED KINGDOM: What’s Really in That Women’s Magazine?
I made a mistake this week, and bought a Women’s Magazine. I know, I know. I have only myself to blame. Turkeys voting for Christmas, and all that. I haven’t bought one for so long. I’ve been doing really well. But then. Oh then... In my defence, it looked so –...
KENYA: Interview with Maryanne W. Waweru of Mummy Tales
Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? I am in Kenya, East Africa. I live in the capital city of Nairobi. This is my home country, and I have lived here all my life. What language(s) do you speak? I communicate in fluent English and Swahili, which is...
BRAZIL: Cultural Criticism for Outdoor Play
If you happen to walk by my house around 6 a.m., you will most probably encounter me in my pajamas, a jacket and my hair on end, being pulled towards the street with surprising strength by my 15 month old son (who – unlike myself – will be looking quite adorable with...
SOCIAL GOOD: What the World Needs to Know about the World Bank
What is the World Bank and what does it do? If you ask an average American, you’ll likely get a blank stare or a wild guess. “Is it like when we played Monopoly as kids and one person got to hand out all the money?” quipped Mackenzie Astin on Vox Populi Radio recently...
ISRAEL: Don’t Let Evil Win
I'm writing this with tears streaming down my face. What everyone in Israel has been hoping never to hear, has happened. The three teenage boys who were kidnapped 18 days ago on their way home from school were found dead, buried together. 18 days of heartbreak, of...
TEXAS, USA: The Court Jester
Summer break is upon us once again. With summer, comes sleeping in, summer vacations, and eating sweet watermelon every day. However, there is something else that sneaks its evil little way into summer as well…. On our way to my daughter’s swimming lessons this...
SINGAPORE: Keeping the Joy as a Working Mom
I may be a working mom balancing between family and work, but I’m certainly no super mom. In Singapore, where the population is not reproducing fast enough, our government has gone to great lengths to encourage couples to get married and start a family. And after the...
ISRAEL: We Walk A Fine Line
I feel like a tightrope artist struggling to walk the fine line of life. Not just a lone tightrope artist finding her balance without an audience but one who is trying to navigate in between a myriad of other tightrope artists, each of us attempting not to fall down....
Field Report #EthiopiaNewborns: Mosebo Village Health Post
We had just spent the night at the source of the Blue Nile River. Lake Tana sits in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, and as our caravan of Land Cruisers wove through the countryside from Bahir Dar to Mosebo I took in deep gulping breaths of sweet fresh Ethiopian air. The lush...
NEW ZEALAND: Matariki
It’s mid-winter in New Zealand. The air is crisper than I’ve felt it for a while, the leaves have pretty much fallen and we have had the shortest day of the year. This week also saw the appearance of the star cluster, Matariki, (The Pleiades), which heralds the Maori...
FIFA World Cup 2014 – Who Do You Support?
This week, the World Moms were found discussing the FIFA World Cup 2014 football. Here is what they answered to the question - Is your country playing the World Cup? If not, what team are you rooting for and why? Jennifer Burden of New Jersey, USA says: When it comes...
CALIFORNIA, USA: When “Beauty” Products are Killing Us
Four years ago I bought my last body lotion and body wash. Two years ago, for several months I went “no-poo”. Around that time I also threw all my deodorants in a trash can. The only thing I have gotten back to is the shampoo. I do, though, try to make it myself every...
THE PHILIPPINES: No, Mommy, I Don’t Want Any Siblings
Yes, it’s true. My 8-year old son and I recently had a conversation about his being an only child and the prospect of him having siblings in the near future. And, well, this was the response that I received from him: No, Mommy, I don’t want any siblings. To be honest,...
ISRAEL: #BringBackOurBoys
Below is a guest post by Joanna Landau, the founder of Kinetis. I turned to her when I was struggling to write a post about 3 teenagers kidnapped in Israel by terrorists. I knew I wanted to bring attention to the situation because I have been appalled at the lack of...
EGYPT: Every Woman Needs To Make Herself Her #1 Priority
My swim coach is in her mid to late twenties and she's engaged to be married. On several occasions, I've noticed from the way she talks, that she does not seem to be happy in her relationship. Today, I didn't see her engagement ring on her finger so I asked her about...
Field Report #EthiopiaNewborns: An Overview of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Ethiopia
Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in Africa with a population of 90 million people, stunned the world by achieving the Millennium Development Goal #4 of reducing the mortality rates of children under age 5 by two-thirds well ahead of the 2015 deadline. In a...
BELGIUM: Lottery
I'm going to ask you all to journey with me into an imaginary world. A parallel universe if you will. This world bears some similarity with the one of H.G Wells' Eloi from his book The Time Machine. And possibly something from Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games as well....
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