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Domestic Abuse: from Fear to Confidence

Marie Kléber — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000

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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From Changing Diapers to Changing the World

Ewa Samples — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:22:39 +0000

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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Protecting My Darlings: a writer’s dilemma

Katinka — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000

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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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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Sometimes the Weeds Are a Good Place to Be

Kyla P'an (Portugal) — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:35:03 +0000

Life in the Weeds When I was a new mother and both of my kids were “littles” (under the age of 5), I spent a lot of time chasing them around, picking up after them and carting them to copious kiddie activities. My mother-in-law liked to refer to that phase of parenting as being “deep […]

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Blended Family Rituals: about ice cream, mustard and goodnight wishes

Katinka — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:31:39 +0000

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. But the special superglue which makes us a […]

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Evolving Maturity: Sometimes 23, sometimes 3

Piya Mukherjee — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000

“Why aren’t babies born with their own unique manuals?!” used to be my constant refrain during the growing-up years of Abhishek, my science-loving, planet-conscious geeky son. As infancy, toddlerhood, childhood and the pre-teens of this bursting-with-energy boy, gave way to the tumultuous teenage years, I kept marvelling at the continual learning involved in being a […]

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Protecting Family Time From Screen Time

Susan Koh — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Socially distanced but digitally connected. That pretty much sums up what happened globally when COVID-19 hit us in 2020. Who would have imagined that in order to stop the spread of the virus, we have to isolate at home, get quarantined, and go as far as having lock-downs across cities, states and countries. It was […]

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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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Throwback Thursday: Season of Letting Go

Tara Bergman (USA) — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:15:56 +0000

We first published this original post, written by World Mom Network contributor Tara B. from Washington, on September 17, 2018. It was well received and shared then. If you haven’t read it, we hope you will enjoy for today’s Throwback Thursday. Early on a Sunday morning, I was driving my twelve-year-old to his karate class. […]

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