North America Archives - World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/category/aaworld/the-americas/north-america/ 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 North America Archives - World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/category/aaworld/the-americas/north-america/ 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 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 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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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/22/meet-a-world-mom-sophia-neghesti-johnson/feed/ 0 World Mom Mission: Back to (Grad) School https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/10/back-to-grad-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-to-grad-school https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/10/back-to-grad-school/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:28:49 +0000 https://www.worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37903 I have wanted to go back to school for a long time. It started even before having my first baby and moving states. But one thing led to another and the time never seemed to be right. In the Spring of 2020—when school went online for my kids, then 9 and 12, because of the […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/10/back-to-grad-school/feed/ 1 From Changing Diapers to Changing the World https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/08/from-changing-diapers-to-changing-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-changing-diapers-to-changing-the-world https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/08/from-changing-diapers-to-changing-the-world/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:22:39 +0000 https://www.worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37883 International Women’s Day is a great time for women to lift up other women and the author of this post does just that. Our World Mom Contributor in California, USA, Ewa (Polish Mom Photographer), reviews a fantastic book, RELEASED TODAY, about mom advocacy , and written by fellow World Mom in Missouri, USA, Cindy Levin. […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/08/from-changing-diapers-to-changing-the-world/feed/ 2 Caviar https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/02/17/caviar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=caviar https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/02/17/caviar/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:12:57 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37808 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 […]

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