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NEW ZEALAND: Dangerous Behaviours?
When my boys were learning to roll over, I never stopped them from bumping their heads on the floor. We had carpet, vinyl and tiles, and they had access to all of those surfaces and often rolled from one to another. By the end of the first week there had been a few...
NEW YORK, USA: Time away from it all
As I sit in another airport lounge at 5:00 AM waiting for my flight, I am sitting here thinking about my children and husband who are at home, still fast asleep in their warm beds. I think about what I will do on this business trip that will take me away from them for...
INDONESIA: Baby Fever Season
“What’s that one for?” I pointed to the rows of most beautiful shiniest rich dark sparkly brown bracelets at this meditation store. “They are for fertility.” the girl smiled warmly. And I immediately withdraw my hand, a little too abruptly maybe followed by “Oh no!...
KENYA: Disability Is Not Inability
In the US, people with physical disabilities focus on fighting stigma, on being viewed as people who can do almost anything despite of their physical limitations, and on fighting for the world to make appropriate accommodations in order to even the playing field. In...
WORLD VOICE: Defecting is Only the Beginning
The third week of August here in Seoul brought some extreme heat, some sun after weeks of monsoon rain, and the first ever United Nations Commission of Inquiry into human rights abuses by North Korea. The hearings were held at a local university and while the...
NETHERLANDS: Interview with Mirjam of Apples and Roses
Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? I live in the Netherlands but I was born in Surinam. What language(s) do you speak? I speak Dutch, English and Surinamese and I also have a rudimentary knowledge of German and French. When did you first...
WORLD TOUR: USA: Gina from Sister Serendip
Ever since I was a tiny girl and they’d ask me what I’d want to be when I grew up, I always wanted to be a mother. “An artist! And a Mommy!” “A teacher!! And a Mommy! “An art teacher!!! And a Mommy!” As I got older and realized I actually had no idea what I wanted to...
ONTARIO, CANADA: Life Lessons From Tragedy
This morning, I received news that a friend's little boy had died. During the weekend, he was wading in a river with his dad and brother, and he got pulled underwater by a current. He was immediately taken to hospital, and the doctors and nurses tried oh-so-hard to...
PHILIPPINES: Monsoons and Motherhood
In the last five days, the Philippines has been under a slew of storms, heavy rains and flooding brought about by the tropical storm Trami. It has claimed lives, displaced thousands, and left much of the northern part of Luzon (the Philippines' northern region) in...
EGYPT: When I Forgot that My Elder Son Is Still a Child
I mentioned in previous posts how I am madly in love with my children and how I take care to express my love to my children. I even wrote about different love languages to express our love to our kids. I was always crazy about children, especially babies and...
World Moms Blog Listed by Forbes 2 Years Running in “100 Best Websites for Women 2013”
We Did It Again! This just in! World Moms Blog is listed for a 2nd year in a row by Forbes Woman in their "100 Best Websites for Women 2013"! The news came to us through a Facebook Fan, and we are literally OVER THE MOON across the continents abuzz with the...
WORLD VOICE: Shot@Life Campaign & #Blogust
In February of 2013 I joined over 100 Shot@Life Champions in Washington, DC, where we were given the training and tools needed to help advocate for global health. To lend our voices to global mothers everywhere, we had the opportunity to meet with members of Congress...
NETHERLANDS: Grandmothers Are Important!
I am always amazed by how many similarities there are between my husband’s family and my own. Our mothers have the same name (even though the spelling and pronunciation are slightly different). Our parents are teachers, his at school, mine are University professors....
WORLD TOUR: Mindi in Belgium
"An American Toddler in (not quite) Paris" It’s 2 P.M. and my toddler is tuckered out and ready for his nap; and—let’s be honest—I’m ready for some coffee and couch time. However, there is one small problem; the neighborhood organ grinder has set up shop right outside...
CALIFORNIA, USA: The Rule of Doing
My dad is famous for his quotes. Some of them are wise words that we all repeated as children, like “When the sun comes up, it’s time to get up. When the sun goes down, it’s time to lie down.” Some are spin-offs of known quotes; for example, “The early bird gets the...
INDONESIA: A Letter to Twenty-Year-Old Me
Dear Ana Gaby, Let me cut to the chase, you are in the verge of turning 30 years old, you live in South East Asia, you are married (yes, you who said that you wouldn’t even date until you were 30), you are a mother of two. Thirty, it is not as bad as it sounds, trust...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: What Sick Means to Me Is Not What It Means to You
Malaria has been in the news this week. Or, rather, the antimalarial medication mefloquine has been getting a lot of attention. The FDA recently issued a black box warning on this old standard for soldiers, vacationers, and expats in faraway, mosquito-infested...
We’re at ONE.org Today for #Moms4MDGs!
As you know we are a global group of mothers, and we care so much for the children of our world and their future. Our children will inherit what we leave behind, so after participating in the United Nations Momentum 1,000 event to mark 1,000 days until the...
BRAZIL: 1, 2, 3…?
It is no secret to those who know me that marrying and having kids wasn’t exactly part of my life plan. I thought someday I might want to, but up to my 24th year of age – which is when I got pregnant with our first child – the feeling hadn’t come up. My husband, on...
TEXAS, USA: Rat Race
The air is slowly starting to get a bit cooler and the days a bit shorter (well, maybe not in Texas…but I know it is in some parts of the world), and I know it can only mean that fall will be soon approaching. Fall approaching in the Northern Hemisphere also means...
JAPAN: Summer….Time?
Summer vacation here in Japan is about six weeks long and falls between the first and second school terms for most kids. That means that it is not between school years, like the long, languid summer vacations I knew as a kid growing up in the US. Before summer...
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