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INDONESIA: The Blessing of Individuality
I have been blessed with two sons. My oldest is almost three years old and my baby just turned one. My pregnancies went as expected, bloating, swelling, nausea and horrible morning sickness, you know, the usual. However, the first breaths of life of each of my boys...
SOCIAL GOOD: $5 Saves 2 Lives in LAOS
This post is the third installment by Kristyn Zalota, Founder of CleanBirth.org, about her work in Laos. To read the first post in the series,click here: “One Mom’s Mission to Save Lives in Laos”. To read the second post, click here: "Small Project Big Impact:...
NEW YORK, USA: Guilty As Charged
We live in New York City, in one of the busiest areas, mid-town Manhattan and there are many benefits to living in the city. The kids go, regularly, to museums. I walk 10 minutes to get to and from work. When the kids were babies, I was able to walk home and nurse...
Saturday Sidebar: Balancing Family Life and Career Life
This week's Saturday Sidebar Question comes from World Moms Blog Fan. She asked our writers, “What are your best tips for balancing family life and career life? How do you make it work where you live?” Check out what some of our World Moms had to say... Momma Expat...
INDONESIA: Working Mom’s Guilt
“Come here, baby…” He snuggled closer to me, allowing me to inhale a faint smell of his shampoo on his thick, getting-too-long hair. For a boy who is no longer a baby who can be dead stubborn about his ways sometimes, I am lucky he still wants to snuggle close to his...
Massachusettes, U.S.A: Age of reason
A daughter takes the imprint of what it means to be a woman from her mother. William Ross Wallace’s poem “What Rules the World” has the famous line, “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world,” which extols motherhood as a paramount force in...
FRANCE: Comparing Childhoods
I've always been determined that my children will have every cultural advantage I had as a child, which means that they will know how to swim competitively, to read music, to play at least one instrument, and have an additional sport of their choice. It seemed a...
SOCIAL GOOD: Clinica Esperanza: A place of hope
It must have been a sign of fate that I happened to be paging through the resort brochure the last night of my stay at the lovely Barefoot Cay and saw the two-page spread on Clinica Esperanza. Instantly, I was taken by the story and by a stroke of luck the next...
ISRAEL: It’s Not My Journey
Something changes with that first cry, that first breath of air, that first glimpse. Something changes with that first realization that things will never ever be the same now that you have bought a life into this world. I was a young mother, only twenty years old when...
Saturday Sidebar: Kissing a boo-boo in your country/family.
This week's Saturday Sidebar Question comes from World Moms Blog writer MamaMzungu. She asked our writers, “How do you "kiss a boo-boo" in your country/ family?” Check out what some of our World Moms had to say... ALadyInFrance of France writes: “In France we rub the...
WASHINGTON, USA: I’m Still Me
This past fall, I agreed to coordinate an art competition for my son’s elementary school. The oversight of this program included working with school staff, budget mapping, recruiting volunteers and judges, event planning, marketing, public speaking, and data...
NEW YORK, USA: Gotta Write That Will, Mom
Recently, I heard the story of a single mother who lost her battle with cancer. One of her three children went to my son's school, and coincidentally my step-sister was friends with her and her son babysat the children for the past few years. The children are 5 and...
JAPAN: Watching and Waiting
As I write, the kids (and my husband) are glued to the TV, watching the weather, trying to determine when and where Typhoon #17 will make landfall, carefully calculating whether or not they will have to go to school (and work). I've spent the morning doing laundry...
RHODE ISLAND, USA: By Eradicating Polio We Give Kids A Shot@Life
She had one leg shorter than the other. Not in such a glaringly obvious way that one would immediately notice, but you could tell if you studied her walk or she pointed it out to you, like she did to me when I was little. I couldn’t fully understand the story as a...
SOUTH KOREA: A Global Perspective on Gun Control, Enough is Enough
Here, in South Korea, as in every other part of the world, there has been grief and shock over the shootings in Connecticut. The loss of so many young lives in such a vicious act of violence is incomprehensible across languages, religions, and cultures. After...
Saturday Sidebar: What is your one word of the year?
This week's Saturday Sidebar Question comes from World Moms Blog writer Alison. She asked our writers, “What is your one word of the year which is going to guide you like a beacon?” Check out what some of our World Moms had to say... Alison Lee of Malaysia writes:...
LAOS: Traveling As a Mom
After flying our twin toddlers half way around the world four months ago, and taking three trips within a month recently, I was certain that I would have some ingenious insights to share on traveling with children. I thought that in addition to the universe of tips...
INDONESIA: Go Outside and Play!
Every day, my 5-year old son asks if he can ride his bike. Rain or shine; straight off the school bus, and often way too early on weekend mornings. With the training wheels off and his helmet on, he’s ready to go. Lucky for us, this is possible. We may live in a...
CANADA: Childcare Troubles
Childcare. No word conjures such stress and anxiety in the mind of a working mom as "childcare." There are countless little things that can cause enormous problems. Your child is too sick to attend. Your child care provider is too sick to care for your child. ...
SOCIAL GOOD: Small Project, Big Impact: Making Birth Safe in Laos
This post is the second installment by Kristyn Zalota, Founder of CleanBirth.org, about her work in Laos. To read the first post in the series, "One Mom's Mission to Save Lives in Laos". "Off to Laos! I am really doing this!”, I enthused in a text to a friend en...
MASSACHUSETTS, USA: Raising Global Citizens
When I was 14, I went on my first international trip...alone. I flew from Newark, NJ to Athens, Greece. When I landed, there was no one to meet me because the friend I was going to visit was on the Saronic island of Hydra, an hour away by ferry. On my own and with no...
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