World Moms Network, Author at World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/author/worldmomsnetwork/ 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, Author at World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/author/worldmomsnetwork/ 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 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 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 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 World Mom: Tes Silverman of USA https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/01/29/world-mom-tes-silverman-of-usa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-mom-tes-silverman-of-usa https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/01/29/world-mom-tes-silverman-of-usa/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2022 07:00:27 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37555 This month’s Meet a World Mom features a treasured member of our senior editing team, who celebrates a very special birthday today. Get to know all about Tes Silverman, how she came to World Moms Network and what she does outside of her role with us. Happy Birthday Tes!! WMN: What country do you live […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/01/29/world-mom-tes-silverman-of-usa/feed/ 1 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 To All Moms: You Don’t Know a Thing! PS, I Love You https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/30/to-all-moms-you-dont-know-a-thing-ps-i-love-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-all-moms-you-dont-know-a-thing-ps-i-love-you https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/30/to-all-moms-you-dont-know-a-thing-ps-i-love-you/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37651 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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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/30/to-all-moms-you-dont-know-a-thing-ps-i-love-you/feed/ 3 Kyle Rittenhouse: Was The Verdict Fair? https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/25/kyle_rittenhouse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kyle_rittenhouse https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/25/kyle_rittenhouse/#respond Thu, 25 Nov 2021 18:50:03 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37690 In August 2020, a 29-year-old African-American man named Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times by police, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This incident resulted in Jacob being paralyzed from the waist down. On August 25, 2020, during the protests that followed, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse left his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, and went to Kenosha, […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/25/kyle_rittenhouse/feed/ 0 Parenting Don’ts: Advice to My Future Self https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/16/parenting-donts-lessons-for-my-future-self/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=parenting-donts-lessons-for-my-future-self https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/16/parenting-donts-lessons-for-my-future-self/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37543 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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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/16/parenting-donts-lessons-for-my-future-self/feed/ 3 World Mom: Kirsten Doyle of Canada https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/02/world-mom-kirsten-doyle-of-canada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-mom-kirsten-doyle-of-canada https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/11/02/world-mom-kirsten-doyle-of-canada/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:54:01 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37537 Hi World Moms! We run a series titled “Meet A World Mom” to showcase our contributors from different parts of the world to share about who they are and what’s happening in their lives. We thought of featuring Kirsten Doyle today for her 11th year anniversary of joining the original World Moms Blog! So here […]

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