by Jenny Dean Schmidt | Mar 25, 2023 | Blog, Jenny's Channelmom Blog
Comedienne Chelsea Handler recently lamented on The Daily Show that childless women (like her) are shamed for not having children. Her snarky response to the alleged shaming: “I’ve got news for everyone. Instead of shaming childless women for what we’re doing to the...
by Jenny Dean Schmidt | Aug 1, 2021 | CM Mom Bloggers, Jenny's Channelmom Blog
This Empty Nest Thing Makes Me Cry Our daughter is going to college. Not to the electric chair. I literally tell myself stuff like this every day. Other days, I just cry. I cry for the end of an era. For the shift in my motherhood. For the empty nest. As my husband...
by Jenny Dean Schmidt | Jun 11, 2020 | CM Mom Bloggers, Jenny's Channelmom Blog
The Power of A Mom [Disclaimer: Not all racism can be blamed on parenting, nor do children always follow parents’ views on race.*] Most of us have heard that George Floyd cried out for his mom in his dying moments–like a tragic echo of his mother’s...
by Jenny Dean Schmidt | Mar 17, 2020 | Jenny's Channelmom Blog
Fear Doesn’t Help…Anything Let me begin by admitting that, like a lot of you, I’m tempted to be fearful. Daily, I’m tempted to worst-case-scenario myself into a frenzied panic. I’ve monitored every symptom of sickness and fretted over every roll of...
by Jenny Dean Schmidt | Mar 22, 2018 | Jenny's Channelmom Blog
Where Does A Mass Shooter Come From? I’ll begin with two disclaimers: My own family has been through a school shooting. My husband was an administrator at Platte Canyon High School in 2006, when 16-year-old Emily Keyes was murdered by a lone gunman who entered the...
by Jenny Dean Schmidt | Aug 2, 2017 | Blog, Jenny's Channelmom Blog
I woke up this morning… feeling an urgent sadness. I lay in bed, aware that both of our children were safely sleeping in the bedrooms above ours. Then I remembered one of those beds would be empty in a few days. Because our son is leaving for college. Do you...
