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

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    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

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

    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

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    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

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

    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...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Fledging grackles avert suburban chainsaw massacre

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

    The first sign that something had changed in the robin's nest beside our porch seemed ominous. The 7-year-old found a fragment of beautiful blue eggshell on the ground, a rather worrying distance away. Had a predator dropped it, to get at its contents? "Oh please let everything be OK with the...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Conscience struggles with cowardice after a party invitation

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

    The party had sounded fun when my friend first heard about it. She'd been flattered and surprised to be invited to celebrate the engagement of a young Virginia couple with whom she was friendly. "Of course! I'd love to come!" she replied enthusiastically, and put the date on her calendar....

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: By the side door, tiny lives in Tiffany blue eggs

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

    "Oh my gosh! I almost went out the side door," said one of the girls, reeling into the kitchen. She clutched her chest in relief, as one who has just narrowly avoided falling off a cliff. "Yeah, I've become so used to the signs that I walked right by them yesterday," said another daughter....

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Did I mention that it's good for you?

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

    "What's in the box?" "And why the heck do we have 8,000 pounds of apples and carrots?" "Aha," I said, rubbing my hands together like a criminal mastermind. "Prepare for an onslaught of nutrition!" "Oh boy," said my children. They were hopeful, but they had been through this before. "No,...

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Tune in this morning for another lunchbox drama

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    "Don't look in your lunchbox until you get to school, OK?" "Why not?" "Just don't." "You think I'm going to complain about what's in it, don't you?" "I know you're going to complain, but that's not why. I put in a surprise," said the sister whose job it was that week to pack lunches....

  • Meghan Cox Gurdon: Candy cigarettes provide a glamorous lure to the real thing

    Meghan Cox Gurdon

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    What do you get when you combine sugar, corn starch, corn syrup, tapioca, beef gelatin and "artificial flavors," and form the paste into thin cylinders? The answer is a product that has been outlawed (according to Wikipedia) in Finland, Norway, Ireland, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Anything...


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