by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 26, 2015 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2015
For our second Outdoor Adventure with Kids for this summer, we took about a 30 minute drive out to Beaverton, Oregon to the Cooper Mountain Nature Park . This time I had all three of my boys (who are at home) with me. My friend Christy wondered how I get my kids...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 12, 2015 | A Thought a Day on Parenting for 31 Days, Parenting, Uncategorized
It’s the last day of school, time to celebrate. I took my 17–year-old twin sons out to Starbucks to celebrate this morning. At first one of my twins said, “No, it’s okay, we don’t have to go.” But I countered, “Oh, Wes, I’d really like to take you and Micki...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 11, 2015 | Adventure with Kids Summer 2015
It’s almost summer. Some moms I am reading, like my friend Kelly, are so looking forward to unstructured time with their kids. Times when they will not have to get up early and make lunches or stay up late to help with the homework or deal with after school plans...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 19, 2014 | Family Life, Kids, Moms, Motherhood, Navigating Motherhood, Parenting, Parenting Philosophy, Raising Teens, Raising Tweens, Real LIfe, Real-Life Mom column, Real-Life Mom column - The Oregonian, Teaching Moments, Teens, Transitions, Tweens, Twins, West Linn, Writing
After the recent winter concert of my sixth grade son at his middle school, we went out for ice cream at the local Baskin-Robbins with about a dozen other families from the community who, like us, were celebrating the wonderful holiday musical event. It was my...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 12, 2014 | Adventure, Attitude, Kids, Life, Outreach, Teaching, Teaching Moments, vocation, Writing
Today after checking in for my substitute-teaching job at West Linn High School, I had to move my car to a different location, and decided to grab that much needed cup of Joe at the local Starbucks. When I pulled up into the parking lot of the coffee shop, I...
