Lindsay Ferrier, author of the popular blog, Suburban Turmoil, was convinced television would turn her daughter into a drooling idiot. Then she turned it on and actually let her watch.

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Few things bring on pangs of guilt faster than cursing in front of your kids. Still, saying “Sticks and stones!” when someone cuts in front of you on the highway just doesn’t feel as good.

Challenge: What do you do when your offspring begins to repeat your oh-so-colorful language?

Yvonne Thomas, PhD, a psychologist in Los Angeles (and online at yvonnethomasphd.com) talks you through a plan of attack.

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If you haven’t seen The Wumblers, an animated half-hour show for preschoolers airing on TBN, the back story will make you want to. Creator Laura Wellington first began drawing the characters (a group of brightly colored, bulbous creatures with an air of Ziggy about them) as a high school student. After losing her husband to cancer in 2002, she rediscovered them. But this time around, she took her sketches to a higher level and her four children (now between the ages of 8 and 14) became involved, too.

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