Europe Archives - World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/category/aaworld/europe/ Connecting mothers; empowering women around the globe. Thu, 26 May 2022 12:16:28 +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 Europe Archives - World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/category/aaworld/europe/ 32 32 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 GUEST POST: New Territory [Albania] https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/15/guest-post-new-territory-albania/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guest-post-new-territory-albania https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/15/guest-post-new-territory-albania/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:10:35 +0000 https://www.worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37913 Today’s post comes to World Moms Network by Lura Elezi of Albania. Lura is an activist, mother, writer and thinker. The piece below first appeared on Lura’s personal blog, Lara, Lara! in April 2020. It is a reflection of a similar time in a different place when a young Lura Elezi was also fleeing from pending […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/15/guest-post-new-territory-albania/feed/ 1 Real People of Ukraine https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/03/real-people-of-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=real-people-of-ukraine https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/03/real-people-of-ukraine/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37867 This is the second installment in our multi-post series about real people of Ukraine as observed by our contriutor, Loren Braunohler. Loren is a former US diplomat who, until recently, was posted with her family in Kyiv, Ukraine. You can read the first installment here. Ksenia and Alex These are my friends Ksenia and Alex. […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/03/real-people-of-ukraine/feed/ 1 UKRAINE: Reflections from a former Diplomat https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-reflections-from-a-former-diplomat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ukraine-reflections-from-a-former-diplomat https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-reflections-from-a-former-diplomat/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:30:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37849 I have no words, and also a thousand words. I am profoundly sad and helplessly angry at the same time. What is happening in Ukraine feels surreal, yet it is horrifyingly, heartbreakingly real. It’s taken me days to get words down because nothing that I write could possibly encompass and explain the horror of what’s […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-reflections-from-a-former-diplomat/feed/ 2 World Mom: Simona Rinfreschi of Spain https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/02/15/world-mom-simona-rinfreschi-of-spain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-mom-simona-rinfreschi-of-spain https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/02/15/world-mom-simona-rinfreschi-of-spain/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:23:55 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37796 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 her posts or be one […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/02/15/world-mom-simona-rinfreschi-of-spain/feed/ 3 Protecting My Darlings: a writer’s dilemma https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/02/01/protecting-my-darlings-a-writers-dilemma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protecting-my-darlings-a-writers-dilemma https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/02/01/protecting-my-darlings-a-writers-dilemma/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37740 Writing and Deleting In Dutch, writers have a mantra, a piece of advice provided by one of our well-known authors about deleting words rather than protecting them: Schrijven Is Schrappen -Godfried Bomans The translation is, “writing is deleting.” It means, instead of holding fast to everything you write, writers must apply the common practice of […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/02/01/protecting-my-darlings-a-writers-dilemma/feed/ 3 COVID and Crayons https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/07/covid-and-crayons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covid-and-crayons https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/07/covid-and-crayons/#respond Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37698 When I was a little girl, I loved coloring books and could spend hours with my crayons, meticulously coloring between the lines. It didn´t require much thinking. The assignment was clear and I got the job done. If I simply stayed within those lines, all turned out well. Lately however, life is not as simple […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/07/covid-and-crayons/feed/ 0 World Mom: Kyla P’an of Portugal https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/02/world-mom-kyla-pan-portugal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-mom-kyla-pan-portugal https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/02/world-mom-kyla-pan-portugal/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:16:23 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37553 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 you live? I live in the lovely […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/02/world-mom-kyla-pan-portugal/feed/ 5 Parental Burnout: Getting Help to Get better https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/23/parental-burnout-getting-help-to-get-better/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=parental-burnout-getting-help-to-get-better https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/23/parental-burnout-getting-help-to-get-better/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37680 “I can’t do it anymore!” I said it. It was not easy but I needed to let emotions go and tell the truth. I didn’t know it but I had hit parental burnout. It did not come out of nowhere but I had kept the situation at a distance for some time. I did not want to show my […]

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