by Jenny Dean Schmidt | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog, Jenny's Channelmom Blog
Respect for the role of motherhood has endured a steady chipping away for decades. Popular culture now characterizes the mom role as more burden than blessing. Just scratch below the surface of our social and political debates and you’ll find proof. It’s not 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...
