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Dear Mom, Thanks for Sharing Your Advice on Patch

Patch delves into parenting with its own family of columnists, writers and editors. Here's the week in daily living and raising the next generation of Maryland Patchers.

Heed offered advice and share some experiences from our Mom columnists and parenting articles, written by those who’ve seen it all.


After reading a  recent report about a 13-year-old in Detroit who was hospitalized because he had to do push-ups as punishment, local editor Bruce Goldfarb laments the current state of child health care and obesity on Arbutus Patch.


Organized by The Mommies Network--a nonprofit organization that helps mothers find support in their communities--motorists across the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., suburbs drove with their lights on this April Fool's Day to raise awareness about the dangers of texting and driving. Pull over and learn more on Catonsville Patch.


Read about what happens when pride and parental interest turns into a more vicarious obsession, as parents recognize a talent in their kids--big or small-- and exploit every inch of it, on Ellicott City Patch.


After the popular retail store Abercrombie & Fitch began selling padded bikini tops made for children, a whirlwind of controversy erupted nationwide. Learn what a child psychologist has to say about the marketing campaign, as well as comments from ABC News, Huffington Post and Patch readers at home on Westminster Patch.


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