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by Jamie Moesser on November 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When you think about it, there is so much need out there—in our communities, our states, our country, and our world. There is hunger, poverty, illiteracy… and lack of education, natural disaster recovery…the list goes on and on.
If you think about it with a “glass-half-full” attitude, that means
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by Jamie Moesser on November 16th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Baby Care—If you’ve lived long enough, you’ve had at least one of those …moments, those epiphanic instances when a particular need or thought strikes you with mind-bending force. For a woman named Kathy Dalton, it was when she heard a woman talk about having to wrap her own baby
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by Jamie Moesser on November 9th, 2011 | No Comments »
Premature Births—If you visit this iTunes link…, you’ll hear a sweet, folksy love song sung by a young man, Mike Spohr, to his soon-to-be-bride Heather. You’ll see, however, that the cover art for the song is not a picture of a cute little couple but one of a
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by Jamie Moesser on November 2nd, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Say you’re a journalist and a mom. Say you get an assignment to write a piece about domestic violence survivors. Say you delve into this assignment with your usual professional zeal, not ever having experienced abuse yourself but anxious to share the real-life stories of actual survivors. You want to…
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by Jamie Moesser on October 26th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If there’s only thing that we at Mom It Forward wish our readers knew, it is the power of their roles as mothers. In inverse proportion to its thanklessness, it is a role that is ultimately more important than any other because it involves the careful shaping of souls. Mothers…
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by Jamie Moesser on October 19th, 2011 | No Comments »
…Meet Angela Ishmael.
She is a blogger, a brand new mom, and an ambassador to Africa. She came into each of those things in somewhat indirect ways, but they are each direct outgrowths of the family values she and her husband decided to embrace when they got married. They were
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by Jamie Moesser on October 12th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
…Jenny Eckton grew up in southwestern New York. At age 19, she moved eight states west to Provo, Utah, to create a band with a friend. She played bass guitar and sang. They named themselves, “Garage Sale.” She intended to stay in Provo only temporarily, but fell in love, married,
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by Jamie Moesser on October 5th, 2011 | No Comments »
On a hot day in Bangladesh, two young women ride through the bustling republic of Bangladesh. Both successful American career women, they’ve been brought together and propelled by the fact that they are also both mothers, and passionate about helping mothers in developing countries. One woman, former supermodel Christy Turlington,…
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by Jamie Moesser on September 28th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
…What does the phrase “involvement in your child’s education” mean to you? Is it a guilt-inducing utterance or a rallying cry? How passionate are you about your child’s education? What does being passionate mean to you? Does it mean being a room mom, volunteering to read in your child’s class,
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by Jamie Moesser on September 21st, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In one of my favorite children books, Your Special Gift by Max Lucado (2006), …Punchinello and his fellow wooden Wemmicks each receive special anonymous gifts when they wake up one day. As they go about their business, they meet a very tired family whose wagon has broken down in their
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Unemployment: How One Mom Is Using Social Media to Better Her Community
