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Feb 24, 2018 · Best Mom: Directed by Kuang Lee. With Krista Allen, Donna Mills, Laura Meadows, Jilon VanOver. A writer mom who desperately wishes to connect with her precocious daughter joins an unscripted Improv class to learn the art of listening and playing, and discovers that both Improv and motherhood are failure-based art forms.
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- Comedy
- Kuang Lee
- 2018-02-24
- Marie Curie
- Sojourner Truth
- Abigail Adams
- Irena Sendler
- Kathy Headlee
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Hoelun
- Candy Lightner
- Waris Dirie
- Indira Gandhi
Although scientist Marie Curie (1867–1934) is best known for being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she also raised her two young daughters alone after her husband died in an accident in 1906. One of their daughters, Irène Joliot-Curie, went on to co-win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband for their own work with radioactivity. Jolio...
In 1826, Sojourner Truth (circa 1797–1883) and her baby daughter escaped slavery in Ulster County, New York. Soon after, she heard that her 5-year-old son, Peter, was illegally soldto a man in Alabama. Truth raised money for a lawyer, filed a complaint in court, and successfully got Peter out of his enslavement—a landmark case in which a Black woma...
As the wife of President John Adams, Abigail Adams (1744–1818) was the second first lady of the United States. Because her husband was frequently away from home for work, she often single-handedly ran their farm, wrote letters supporting equal rights for women and the abolition of slavery, and educated their five kids who survived into childhood—in...
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) was a Polish employee at the Warsaw Social Welfare Department who smuggled almost 2500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, saving their lives. Using the code name Jolanta, she gave these children false identification documents, established temporary (non-Jewish) identities for them, and placed th...
Kathy Headlee, a mother of seven (the youngest of whom she adopted from Romania), started Mothers Without Bordersto help orphaned children around the world. Beginning in 1992, she led a group of volunteers to distribute relief supplies to orphanages and train caregivers in Romania. Since then, Mothers Without Borders has sent volunteers to help chi...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) was the first Black woman in America to publish a short story. Harper had a way with words: She was a prolific poet and lecturer who traveled the country giving speeches arguing for abolition and women’s rights. Her words appeared so frequently in anti-slavery newspapers that she became known as “the mother ...
Famous as the mother of Genghis Khan, Hoelun (1142–1221) survived getting kidnapped, widowhood, and being an outcast on her journey to becoming the mother and advisor to one of the largest empires in world history (as well as being one of the few people who could yell at Genghis and get away with it). Around the time of her first marriage, she was ...
In 1980, a hit-and-run drunk driver killed one of Candy Lightner’s 13-year-old twin daughters, Cari. The driver had three prior convictions for drunk driving, and had been arrested two days earlier for a different hit-and-run. Within a few months, Lightner founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) to end drunk driving, pass tougher legislation, ...
In 1970, when she was 5 years old, Waris Dirie became a victim of female genital mutilation in her home of Somalia. Then, when she was 13, her parents arranged for her to marry a man in his sixties; she ran away from home and eventually arrived in London. Although she worked as a successful model (and even appeared in a 1987 James Bond film), she r...
As India’s first female prime minister, Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) worked to institute democracy and create jobs to combat food shortages. She was responsible for India's green revolution, which made the country self-sufficient and no longer reliant on imported grains. “Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force...
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- Julia Malacoff
- Give Your Kids 15 Minutes. Twice a day, "disconnect yourself from your daily tasks and go into their world with no distractions," advises Dena Alalfey, a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor.
- Praise the Positives. "Humans have a serious negativity bias, so it's super easy to start feeling like your children are a total disaster and your relationship with them stinks," notes Michelle Gale, mindful parenting educator and author of Mindful Parenting in a Messy World.
- Take Care of Yourself. "Think of the oxygen mask principle: Put yours on first, and then you can help your children," says Melissa Divaris Thompson, LMFT, a licensed psychotherapist and co-founder of Honest Mamas.
- Find The Experts in Your Life. Sometimes, the key is knowing what you don't know. "An expert might be a stranger in that Facebook group for moms, or it could be your child's pediatrician or teacher at daycare," says Kelsey Allan, parenting expert for Sleep Train.
May 10, 2020 · 1. "I may not be perfect, but when I look at my children, I know that I got something in my life perfectly right." Advertisement. RELATED: 2. "A Mother understands what a child cannot say." 3....
Apr 10, 2024 · Moms are the most beautiful beings in the world. No one has loved you like your mom, and no one ever will. Her love is the purest of all. The highest compliment I could receive is that I've turned into my mother. I can only hope! When I became a mother, it was then I knew what was in my mom's heart. Nobody loves you like your mom.
- Kelly Roper
Mar 17, 2023 · 1. Heal Your Inner Child. You enter parenting with baggage. "Moms may have had needs when they were a child that were unmet by caregivers, which can negatively impact their perception of life and...
May 11, 2024 · 100 Best Mother's Day Quotes About Moms. iStock. 1. "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." — Abraham Lincoln. 2. "My mother has always been my emotional barometer and...
