Mom Says It Best: Be Careful How You Boast About Your Child

ACROSS AMERICA — All parents want to believe their children make sound decisions when they’re not looking.

Pamela DeMaio’s mom recognized the reality that poor decisions are a part of growing up.

“Never say ‘not my child,’ ” DeMaio, a Branford, Connecticut, Patch reader, wrote in a tribute to her mother. “Good kids make bad decisions.”

DeMaio is among Patch readers sharing the best advice they ever got from their moms in our extended celebration of Mother’s Day.

Come back to Across America Patch every day through Mother’s Day — Sunday, May 9 — for more of these morsels of wisdom we can relate to and smile about as we think of our own moms.

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