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1KHO 963: What We Lost When Childhood Became So Comfortable | Meghan Cox Gurdon

There was a time when children could experience life without feeling the need to document it, share it, or turn it into something for others to see. Author Meghan Cox Gurdon returns to the podcast with Free Range Girl, her remarkable memoir of a year spent homesteading with her father in rural Maine at age twelve.

In this rich conversation with Ginny Yurich, Meghan reflects on a childhood filled with extraordinary freedom, genuine risk, and the kind of everyday discomfort that made life's simplest pleasures unforgettable. From riding horses alone through the woods to discovering the…

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