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Mom Murders Teens for Being “Mouthy”

Tragic and unbelievable. Those are the words that immediately came to my mind upon hearing about the Florida mom who admitted to murdering her 16-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son. Have you heard about this case? It’s all over the cable news networks. According to CNN, on the evening of January 27th, Julie Powers Schenecker allegedly shot and killed her two children for “talking back.” Police say the 50-year-old wife of a U.S. Army colonel admitted to them that she shot her son twice in the head with a .38 caliber pistol while she drove him to soccer practice in suburban … Continue reading →

Mother Love

Mother’s Day is almost here, which is why the Internet is being deluged by posts that wax poetic about women, who give and give and give, until like Charlotte the spider, they croak. I told you: spiders = inspirational mothers. Of course, there are a few human ones that make the grade too. My mom, your mom, his mom, her mom… Most people think their mom rocks, save for some of today’s self-absorbed teens. But even those petulant offspring come around at some point. Typically, it happens after they start having babies themselves. Sure, there are some women who don’t … Continue reading →

Failing as a Parent… in Florida

I wouldn’t want to be a parent raising a kid in Florida this week. The Sunshine State is taking a beating when it comes to negligent parenting. Days after Casey Anthony is set free despite most of the nation labeling her as a baby killer, and months after a Tampa-area mom is charged with murdering her two teenage kids for allegedly being “mouthy,” comes news about a Pasco County mom robbing a bank with her toddler in tow. According to law enforcement officials, 24-year-old Cherilyn Jannette Lopez held up a bank while schlepping her 3-year-old son, so she could gather … Continue reading →

Could it have been prevented?

Woulda, could, shoulda. Those words may have been on the mind of Parker Schenecker, father to the teens allegedly murdered last week by their mother for being “mouthy,” yet they were never uttered in public. Rather, the clearly distraught dad wiped away tears at his children’s memorial service last night and begged hundreds of mourners: “Please don’t forget how they lived.” The video of Schenecker’s emotional message to 16-year-old daughter Calyx and 13-year-old son Beau’s classmates and friends is posted in its entirety on YouTube. It’s the first time the grieving father has been seen in public since news broke … Continue reading →