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05/09/14

My mom has taught me that in life you’ve always got to give of yourself first. She pushed through as a single mom to give me the best bilingual education there was. My mom always somehow managed to be there for us, even though she had to make it work. Once she remarried things were a bit different...

MomsRising Together

Ana Flores

Blog Carnival!

Blog Carnivals

05/09/14

This Mother’s Day, celebrities, politicians, and others including First Lady Michelle Obama, Arianna Huffington, Christy Turlington Burns, Mayim Bialik, Representative Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, Leader Nancy Pelosi, Emily Saliers (of the Indigo Girls), CraigsList founder Craig Newmark and others are sharing the important lessons they learned from their mothers in the first-ever MomsRising Celebration of Mothers!

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Food! Health Care Politics & Policy

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...

MomsRising Together

Harriet Shugarman

Blog Carnivals

05/09/14

My mom is my best friend. She gave me the confidence to believe I could do anything.

MomsRising Together

Fran Drescher

Blog Carnivals Environmental Health

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

Blog Carnivals

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

Blog Carnivals

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...

MomsRising Together

Sally Kohn

Blog Carnivals

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

Blog Carnivals

05/08/14

Once upon a time in Seattle, a little girl went downtown with her mother and baby sister and had a grand adventure. They may have shopped at Frederick & Nelson’s. They could have sipped milkshakes in the Paul Bunyan Room. But the excitement meter started spinning like crazy when the car broke...

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Ann Hedreen

Blog Carnivals Environmental Health Politics & Policy

05/08/14

My mother taught me to “reach for the stars.” My mother taught me to believe in myself and to believe deeply and passionately for all that I strive for. She told if I am true to myself, that I can accomplish anything. Today, I am a national spokesperson on climate change action and advocacy. I am...

MomsRising Together

Harriet Shugarman