2021 Archives - World Moms Network

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A Man Who Changed The World

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:05:47 +0000

Many years ago, when I was still living in South Africa, I was on the organizing committee for a national conference at which Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the keynote speaker. There were about ten of us on the committee, and we were all unspeakably excited at the prospect of an in-person meeting with this great […]

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10 Ways To Observe Human Rights Day

Jennifer Prestholdt (USA) — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:25:42 +0000

Each year on December 10, people all around the world celebrate Human Rights Day. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly‘s adoption on 10 December 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global statement of international human rights principles. The UDHR was the first international document that spelled out the “basic civil, political, economic, social and […]

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COVID and Crayons

Mirjam — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000

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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World Mom: Kyla P’an of Portugal

World Moms Network — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:16:23 +0000

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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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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Kyle Rittenhouse: Was The Verdict Fair?

World Moms Network — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 18:50:03 +0000

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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Parental Burnout: Getting Help to Get better

Marie Kléber — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000

“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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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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Love Thy Neighbor

Disha Ellis — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:09:03 +0000

Amazon Prime released a series called “Them”. It is set in the 1950’s, and it tells the story of a Black family that moves into an all-white neighborhood in Los Angeles. Watching this show reminds me of the fact that my parents were the second Black family on our street. This was well before I […]

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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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