by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 14, 2013 | Culture, Family Life, Home, Kids, Life, Moms, Real LIfe, Real-Life Mom column
About the kids-relaxing-all-summer thought. Not going to happen. They would drive me and themselves crazy for sure. Since my recent earlier summer blog post, “Can we just Relax, Mom?” I have received notes from other high-achieving parents, grateful for the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 29, 2013 | Children, Family Life, Home, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting, Real-Life Mom column, Tradition, Transitions, Writing
(This was also published in The Huffington Post Huffington Post- Can We Just Relax Mom?”) The start of summer is a bit disorienting for me as a mom, and I know for many other parents as well. What to do with the kids this summer, 12 weeks long. During the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 7, 2012 | Africa, Gratitude, Home, Justice, Kids, Life, Parenting, Refugees, Writing
He walks to the door with his supervisor to let us in the locked rusty metal door double bolted entrance, which leads us through a cement-to-ceiling wired fence that takes us into a courtyard where deflated basketballs and wet picnic tables are pushed to the side. He...
