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There’s a cruel yet necessary part of life that the universe has subjected parents to—the final year of high school when your teen knows everything and finds ways to make you unapologetically not like them. At times, you don’t like them so much that you can’t wait for them to …

Keep your children close and your smartphones even closer. These days, we feel the need to be constantly connected–and many times for good reason. The other day my daughter Paige texted me some frightening news. It read,”Someone was shot at my school just now.” The newsperson in me wanted every …

The summer is a great time for kids to let loose. School is out and there is an array of ways to have fun. Unfortunately, the summer is also an opportunity for injuries and illnesses to put a lid on your children’s good times. Parents are often faced with the …

Dear Readers, This issue of Baltimore’s Child is my last. Writing the Family Matters column has been an eight-year labor of love from the start. I loved sharing my thoughts and feelings with you and receiving emails in which many of you shared your thoughts, suggestions, feelings and experiences with …

Summer! It’s the time of year everyone looks forward to—the sunshine, the vacations, the prevalence of events. It’s a time of relaxation and rejuvenation…which is why we here at Baltimore’s Child did exactly the opposite. We decided this was the perfect time to make ourselves extra busy and launch our …

By Suzanne Pollak With winter comes sledding, snowmen, and—much less joyously—the inevitable runny nose and cough. But for the very youngest of our children, the typical cold symptoms can turn into more than just an inconvenience and are definitely nothing to play with. Almost all children have had a respiratory …

By Joyce Heid Late this past August, Janine D’Adamo and Alec Heuisler of Waverly welcomed their son, Niko, into the world at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. In preparing for Niko’s arrival, although they were very comfortable with their choice of hospital and obstetrician, the couple still felt they …