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Get Involved: Global Day of Action to Cut Conflict Palm Oil

05/09/14
When problems seem overwhelming for our children, we remind them to take things “one day at time.” Amazingly, their problems often don’t seem so big or so overwhelming anymore. may20DoA.jpg On May 20, 2014, you and your family can join me and my family and thousands of other folks around the world...
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Harriet Shugarman
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My mom is my best friend

05/09/14
My mom is my best friend. She gave me the confidence to believe I could do anything.
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Fran Drescher
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Mom Taught Me To Be An Activist

05/09/14
I recently visited my mom for her birthday last week. She always possessed a practical, no-nonsense attitude. Mom is the personification of a hip 80 year-old, but she reminds me often that growing up during the Depression gives her the edge of realism. Her mind is as sharp as a tack, so even at her...
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Ronnie Citron-Fink
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I learned from my mom to never accept a lousy seat in a restaurant

05/09/14
My mother Kay Smith, who is now 92, taught me so much….I learned from my mom to never accept a lousy seat in a restaurant. Usually women are seated by the kitchen and I always speak up—and am moved. She taught me to immediately call or send a message when someone is in trouble or has lost a loved...
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Molly Smith
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Since Becoming A Mom

05/09/14
Since becoming a mom, I've learned the importance of drinking. Being a parent is hard. So hard that it makes me question evolution. If reproduction is a biological necessity for our species, then why is parenting so damn hard? Darwin has some explaining to do. Or maybe Freud. I have a five-year-old...
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Sally Kohn
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Protect and Nurture Our Human Capital

05/09/14
My mother taught me that looking after our financial capital is not enough. We need to do everything we can to protect and nurture our human capital.
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Arianna Huffington
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My mom taught me how to be tough

05/09/14
My mom taught me how to be tough. Not tough in the way we usually think of the word “tough,” you know what I mean, bleeding from the head, walk it off, fistfight on the school bus, that sort of thing. (My mom’s like 5’ 3” and only weighs a buck and change maybe, though I did once witness her take a...
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Alex Tse
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My mom taught me these life lessons

05/09/14
My mom taught me these life lessons…
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Christy Turlington Burns
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My mom taught me to love words

05/09/14
My mom taught me to love words. We were poor when I was a kid, so we never had the latest toys.
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Alisa Valdes
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My Mom never, ever gives up.

05/09/14
My Mom never, ever gives up. In her gentle and cheerful way, she never gives up. Mom is 92 years old, she's had health and other challenges galore, and she never gives up. She is grounded in her faith in God. That faith has empowered her to face one obstacle after another with patience and grace...
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Enola Aird

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