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Grandmothers are the glue of a family. They always have the warmest hugs and are so happy to see you no matter what. In the 80’s they were built in nannies for most. At least I know mine was. I was there daily even when I became old enough for school. I was for sure a...
World Mom: Simona Rinfreschi of Spain
Mama Simona has been a World Moms Contributor for more than a decade and has written many posts for us over the years. She first started contributing from South Africa but left that world behind in 2021 when she moved to Spain with her husband. You may know her from...
Family in Transit
A recent post on Instagram had me chuckling and sighing at the same time. Someone had shared about the expatriate experience and said it was a cycle of unpacking, attempting to settle in, and packing up again. Then repeat. This resonated powerfully with me because it...
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10 Ways To Observe Human Rights Day
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...
LET’S TALK ABOUT RACISM
Acknowledging White Privilege
Being Latina AND white A few years ago, I wrote an article about being a white Latina. It didn't go down well. I've learned a lot about white privilege since then, and it's definitely made me see things differently. Through my erroneous view of how being a white...
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
A Writer’s Plight: Get Writing!
“SOMETHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING BADLY” The Plight of Perfectionism Yes, you read that right: "Something WORTH doing is worth doing BADLY." When I first read that sentence in an email from one of my mentors, I thought that he had made a typo. Surely anything...
COVID 19
Not What We Were Expecting
My 16-year-old son left for a summer study session this morning, only to message me from the train station thirty minutes later. Oops, it had been cancelled. Now a long day in the oppressing heat and humid hell of Japanese summer stretches long and lazily before us....
WORLD PARENTING
Blended Family Rituals: about ice cream, mustard and goodnight wishes
The Glue that Binds If you ask about the glue that keeps our blended family together, I could reply with classics like ‘unconditional love’, ‘reciprocal respect’ or ‘bonding through fun’. All those are indeed values we hold high in our family of two plus two plus two....
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World Mom: Kyla P’an of Portugal
In addition to WMN Founder, Jennifer Burden, many of our Senior Editors have been with World Moms since almost its inception. Our Managing Editor, Kyla P’an was among our first World Moms. She joined in 2011. Here’s her story and what makes her a World Mom: Where do...
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Our global contributors have been invited to the White House, the World Bank and the United Nations. We have been awarded journalistic fellowships to Brazil, Ethiopia, Uganda and the United States of America to report or speak on social good topics such as global health, maternal and newborn health, education and development. We also received Social Media & Global Influencer Fellowships by the UN Foundation in New York City, attended Shot@Life Vaccination Advocacy Summits and the ONE Campaign’s Women and Girls’ Summit in Washington, DC.
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