Here’s a sample of some of the media Growing Up Global has attracted. The Blog includes some of the stories, and continue to check in to the Growing Up Global Facebook page and Twitter feed for regular updates.
Scholastic Parent & Child
Growing Up Global is a “Best New Parenting Book” in Scholastic Parent & Child.
The Boston Globe
(Print Edition) names Growing Up Global “The Find” of the week in books. Here’s the link to the Boston.com MOMS review.
NBC taps local author to help kids’ show go global
As a cultural consultant, Homa Tavangar makes sure TV gets it right.
Million Moms Challenge
Spur The Global Economy – Stay Home And Make A Difference This Thanksgiving. Feeling the pressure of tighter consumer spending, giant retailers catering to bargain hunters will open earlier than ever this Black Friday, on Thanksgiving Thursday.
Million Moms Challenge
World Food Day And Beyond – 5 Steps To Raising An Adventurous Eater! Sunday was World Food Day, and while hunger endangers the lives of too many around the world, for many parents, our daily food challenge might be more on the order of just getting our little ones to eat their broccoli.
Million Moms Challenge
Increasing The Odds – For Every Baby My third daughter had a 92% chance of never being conceived. When she was around four-years-old she heard a friend of mine mention our little surprise, and then asked me: “Mommy, why does she say I’m an accident?”
Million Moms Challenge
Doing The Best I Can – Like The Hummingbird A typical little girl, in a Kenyan village, who spent her days fetching firewood and water for her large family, was expected to grow up like her mother – one of four wives, illiterate and subservient to her husband.
Helping Kids Explore Their Heritage
Let St. Patrick’s Day (when everybody’s Irish) launch your family’s cultural IQ
Expert Advice: Can a child be too young to volunteer at a shelter?
Book Talk & Screening of “Girl Rising”
Two-in-one documentary screening and book talk on power of girls’ education.
ABC News Local
Parenting Perspective: Growing Up Global. We’re always hearing about how the world is getting smaller and our children need to be ready to interact globally. But in this tight economy, the family trip overseas is hard to pull off.
Pittsburgh Today CBS Local
Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be At Home in the World helps parents to raise children with a global perspective. Not all families can travel overseas to expose their children to world cultures, but they can start engaging with the world right in their own home communities.
NBC Philadelphia – Avoiding the Summer Slump
Growing Up Global on NBC’s Education Nation Interview with Homa Sabet Tavangar on NBC Philadelphia.
Dallas Morning News
Elementary Students Inspired
Parents Magazine
December 2011
The December 2011 issue of Parents Magazine featured a story on global learning for families, drawing from a number of experts in the field, like the inspiring Dana Mortenson of World Savvy. I was honored to be contacted for the story, and that the title of the story ended up being the subtitle of Growing Up Global, “At Home in the World.”
Power of Moms
Book Summary: Growing Up Global This is hands-down the best book I’ve ever read about helping children to develop a healthy, beautiful, meaningful perspective of the world. I consider myself to be one of Homa’s most enthusiastic (and hungry) students. I’ve never been outside of North America, and although I live in a very diverse part of California..