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To All Moms: You Don’t Know a Thing! PS, I Love You

World Moms Network — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Alas! I’d just had yet another row with my 14-year-old, and the closing banter, as always was, “You don’t know a thing! I hate you Mom!”. Feeling drained out, wretched, and eager to make things normal, all at the same time, I heard the loud thud of the door closing. She has shut her bedroom […]

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Parenting Don’ts: Advice to My Future Self

World Moms Network — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

I had the privilege to be born in Bahrain and imbibe the various cultures around me. Raised in a nuclear family, my parents tried to give my sister and me everything that a big, joint Indian family would provide for a proper balanced upbringing. That was a lot of expectations from one dad and one mum […]

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Advice for the First Bird Leaving the Nest

Mama B (Saudi Arabia) — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:18:21 +0000

Years ago (many years but not many many), I headed to London to start University at the age of 18. Moving from Riyadh, where I was accustom to always asking permission from my parents before going out, having a chaperone with me in the car with the driver, and living my life as a little […]

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GHANA: Motherhood and Experiences

Adwoa Gyimah — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 05:00:04 +0000

I love being a mother and I’m forever grateful for my children. It has not always been so smooth through pregnancy, childbirth, and nurturing but I’m constantly learning, praying and evolving as I navigate through this journey of motherhood. We have been blessed with two gorgeous boys who are to me everything that I could […]

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Beach Bodies

Mannahattamamma (UAE) — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 22:17:25 +0000

I live in a country where it’s bathing-suit season all year. As a woman “of a certain age,” as they say in France, that fact does not exactly fill me with joy. My bathing suits tend to be utilitarian affairs, more designed for walking along the shore than glamorous sunbathing. Because I live in the […]

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OMAN: Four reasons to raise awareness on parenting issues

Ibtisam Alwardi — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:00:25 +0000

As I find my way between my career and parenting, I try to make the fewest mistakes possible. It’s not that mistakes aren’t good sometimes – I just try not to go beyond the useful ones. Fortunately, I am good at observing, analyzing and indulging myself in learning. The moment I became a mother, I realized that motherhood is not something […]

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SAUDI ARABIA: A Message to the Mom Shamers

Mama B (Saudi Arabia) — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 06:00:32 +0000

I had a nightmare the other night about running late for dinner with my husband. In the dream, I went into the bedroom to change, but for the life of me I couldn’t get ready. I knew my husband was outside getting more and more impatient with me and we were going to miss our reservation, […]

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EGYPT: Beliefs and how they impact our lives

Nihad — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:30:27 +0000

According to Merriam Webster, a belief is, “something that a person accepts as true or right, a strongly held opinion about something.” A belief is just an opinion, not necessarily the truth or the reality. Beliefs can be imagined as an iceberg. There are some beliefs we are conscious of, like the tip of the iceberg that can be […]

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UAE: Parenting In Strange (Trumpish) Times

Mannahattamamma (UAE) — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:04:39 +0000

We are living in strange times. Here’s how strange they are: the other day I found myself nodding in agreement with something that Dick Cheney said. He is one of the few Republicans who spoke out immediately against Trump’s executive order banning Muslims entering the United States. (Of course in the same interview, he talked […]

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ISRAEL: I Don’t Want to be Superwoman

Susie Newday (Israel) — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 06:00:06 +0000

I don’t want to be Superwoman. I used to take it as a compliment when people told me I was “Superwoman”. I took it to mean that I must be doing something right to be able to manage to do everything I was doing. And yes, it felt good to hear that people were impressed […]

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