World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/ Connecting mothers; empowering women around the globe. Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:57:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.11 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-World-Moms-Network-Logo-512-125x125.jpg World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/ 32 32 When Child Abuse Is Disguised As Religion https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/28/child-abuse-disguised-as-religion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=child-abuse-disguised-as-religion https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/28/child-abuse-disguised-as-religion/#respond Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:18:57 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38091 Child Rights In the spring of 2005 I found myself opening the door of a police station and hesitantly making my way to the front desk. I was 22 years old, in Amish garb and I looked more than a little out of place as I glanced around the police station. The one thing driving […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/28/child-abuse-disguised-as-religion/feed/ 0 World Food Day 2022 with CARE https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-food-day-2022-with-care https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/#respond Fri, 21 Oct 2022 01:51:52 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38066 Hello World Moms!   We are back this week from our extended summer break and have been up and running behind the scenes in October planning out our next year! Today, we have a special call to action for World Food Day…read on! Sunday, October 16, 2022, I was in Philadelphia with the CARE foundation for World Food […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/feed/ 0 ALT Summit + The Riveter in NYC https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:09:06 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38031 World Moms Network Editor at Large Elizabeth Atalay attended the recent ALT Summit + The Riveter conference in New York City. The Riveter summed up some of the memorable moments in this post. The ALT Summit + The Riveter conference was my first in-person event since the pandemic and brought about all the feels! The […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/feed/ 1 School Shooting: A Letter To My Sons https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/26/school-shooting-a-letter-to-my-sons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=school-shooting-a-letter-to-my-sons https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/26/school-shooting-a-letter-to-my-sons/#respond Thu, 26 May 2022 15:22:48 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38027 I wrote this in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in December 2012. At the time, my boys were 6 and 8 years old -similar ages to the children who lost their lives on that terrible day. I know that many parents will be feeling this way now, after the tragedy in Texas. Our […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/26/school-shooting-a-letter-to-my-sons/feed/ 0 My Roe v Wade Story https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/16/my-roe-v-wade-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-roe-v-wade-story https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/16/my-roe-v-wade-story/#comments Mon, 16 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37994 Here we are again, still fighting for abortion rights. Roe v Wade I wasn’t sure I wanted to write about this but I can’t keep silent. Women have been fighting for rights of every kind for as long as we’ve been alive. I, personally, have attended the Women’s March and protests against separating children from […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/16/my-roe-v-wade-story/feed/ 4 Chatting With World Moms Network Founder https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/04/world-moms-network-founder/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-moms-network-founder https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/04/world-moms-network-founder/#comments Thu, 05 May 2022 03:53:46 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37983 This Sunday, May 8th, is Mother’s Day in the United States and I wanted to feature Jennifer Burden – CEO & Founder of World Moms Network. I had no clue what World Moms Network was about until I met Elizabeth Atalay, then Managing Editor of World Moms Network, at the Moms+Social Good Summit in NYC. […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/05/04/world-moms-network-founder/feed/ 1 Domestic Abuse: from Fear to Confidence https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/04/28/domestic-abuse-from-fear-to-confidence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=domestic-abuse-from-fear-to-confidence https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/04/28/domestic-abuse-from-fear-to-confidence/#respond Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37953 When you leave an abusive relationship, you are driven by fear. At some point you know that if you stay, you’ll die, one way or another. And if you have kids, that they are at great risk too. You may not be able to say that it’s the right choice, because your thoughts are not […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/04/28/domestic-abuse-from-fear-to-confidence/feed/ 0 From Disappointment to Apathy: a COVID outcome https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/04/26/from-disappointment-to-apathy-a-covid-outcome/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-disappointment-to-apathy-a-covid-outcome https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/04/26/from-disappointment-to-apathy-a-covid-outcome/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2022 13:09:14 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37962 Kids need to learn how to deal with disappointment I’ve heard this said time and time again, especially when my teenagers were younger. Most of the time, it was meant as general advice towards today’s generation of spoiled children but the advice has been directed towards me as well. I admit, I’ve been the kind […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/04/26/from-disappointment-to-apathy-a-covid-outcome/feed/ 1 Screen Time And Pandemics: We Need Flexibility https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/31/screen-time-pandemic-flexibility/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=screen-time-pandemic-flexibility https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/31/screen-time-pandemic-flexibility/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:49:33 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37462 Today is the last day of “ski break” on my side of the world. Our school has an annual week-long recess on Washington’s Birthday, and the students like to call it “ski break”. This ski break was especially long for us: due to a COVID-19 outbreak at my 4-year-old’s day care center, we had to […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/31/screen-time-pandemic-flexibility/feed/ 1 Meet A World Mom: Sophia Neghesti-Johnson https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/22/meet-a-world-mom-sophia-neghesti-johnson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-a-world-mom-sophia-neghesti-johnson https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/22/meet-a-world-mom-sophia-neghesti-johnson/#respond Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:43:37 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37928 Continuing our trip around the world chatting with World Moms, today we are proud to profile Sophia Neghesti-Johnson, who was born in Tanzania. She spent her youth between Italy and Tanzania, finally settling in the United States of America. Like many of our World Moms, Sophia is multilingual, she speaks English, Kiswahili and Italian. Sophia […]

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