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  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: From Paris, an au revoir to readers of The Washington Examiner newspaper

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 06/12/13 04:50 PM

    As alert readers know, tomorrow is the last newspaper edition of The Washington Examiner. Beginning next week, the work of my colleagues who write about politics and policy will appear on the Internet, which is now the heart of our culture, and in a weekly magazine. This fact is melancholy to...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Sensible shoes so gaudy, but they make your feet happy

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 06/10/13 09:10 PM

    "Hey, those look good." "Mmmm, well, they feel good." "They look good, too." "Oh, you've got to be kidding me," I winced. "They're ghastly!" The salesman laughed. "Yeah, I hear that a lot." Together we stood before a full-length mirror and regarded the spectacle of my feet in what used...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Recreation trumps the other three Rs

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 06/05/13 08:40 PM

    It was late afternoon, and the children were shooting the breeze with one another in the kitchen. "Only seven more days," a daughter exulted, "and then summer!" "Hah, suckers, I get out before you," said her brother. "Why, how long do you have?" "Six days," he replied. "Oh, big whoop."...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Mom and daughter fall into the doughnut hole

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 06/02/13 06:45 PM

    In retrospect, the doughnuts were a bad idea. Like other things that at the time seem reasonable -- one more straw on the camel's back, a wafer-thin mint -- the doughnuts turned what should have been a day of serene domesticity into a fat-spattered race against time. Our youngest daughter,...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Bathroom humor causes young boys to shriek, sometimes in pain

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 05/29/13 12:50 PM

    Three little boys were riding in the back of a family car. The windows were open, warm air was whipping around them, and the boys were shouting with pleasure at the genius of their own wit. Readers with delicate sensibilities may want to stop here, because the boys in question ranged from 5 to...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Being on the swim team means crying in your goggles — until you don't

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 05/24/13 06:20 PM

    "I don't want to go tomorrow." "No need to think about that now." "Do I have to go tomorrow?" "You should go!" came the enthusiastic response. "But do I have to?" "Well," said the mother to her miserable, shivering, blue-lipped son, "I think it'll be a lot of fun!" "I don't like swim...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Mom wakes up to a birthday song, fresh coffee and a family hug

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 05/22/13 01:25 PM

    Breakfast in bed may be a great luxury, but when you are a parent and it is your birthday (or Mother's or Father's day), it is an indulgence that requires you to have your wits about you so that everyone has a good time — particularly the young people who are giving you the early morning treat.

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: A tiny robin leaves the nest, and nature takes its course

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 05/17/13 05:15 PM

    We found the first fallen fledgling this week. I could tell something upsetting was happening the minute I came out of the house, from the loud cheeping and cawing and squawking. The noise came from the children; the tiny bird they'd found on the porch was silent. "Don't touch it!" "I'm not...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: A small birthday party may be fun, but it comes with a social cost

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 05/15/13 01:40 PM

    It was getting late, and the mothers on the playground were beginning to shift on their feet. Conversation was lagging, and eventually one of the women waved to her son. "C'mon birthday boy!" she called. "Time to go home!" As the child jumped down from the monkey bars, landing in a group of...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: How to assure Mother's Day meets your expectations

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon | 05/10/13 06:50 PM

    Possibly the best piece of advice I ever received, as a mother, came from the humane and insightful Marguerite Kelly. I met the author of "The Mother's Almanac" when my first two children were small, and I turned up at her Capitol Hill house with a tape recorder to do a magazine interview. I...


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