Meghan Cox Gurdon: Oh, the agony of parenthood

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If, on a sunny day, your small children open a lemonade stand, do you charge them for the lemons pilfered from your kitchen? Of course not? What kind of a scrooge do I take you for?

OK. Fair enough. So you clean up their sugary mess, having paid for the ingredients, while the children dance around chortling about all the money they’ve made.

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