If you keep sneaking into the living room to catch glimpses of the latest TV hyperbole news about the upcoming election, relax. While you might be horrified at the mud-slinging going on (and would hopefully give your kids a time-out if they were acting as sleazy and underhanded as, say, Steve Schmidt) you don’t have to keep politics a secret from your kid.

Paul Nyhan, who blogs over at Working Dad for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer,  explains. And much, much more even-handedly than we would.

–Posted by Stephanie Booth

Does your family have GUTS? Nickelodeon’s hoping the answer is yes. The channel’s new series – a half-hour extreme sports reality show called My Family’s Got GUTS – premiered on Monday. Sorry, we’re a little slow on the uptake. But it should be easy to forgive us because the show’s airing on Nickelodeon at 8:00 ET/PT every weeknight until next Friday, Sept. 26. An hour-long finale will premiere Saturday, Sept. 27 at the same time.

So why are we recommending this show? Families. Working together. And doing some crazy-$#@@ extreme sports challenges that the writers must have had a hilarious time coming up with. “Dude! Let’s make the parents go down an aerial sports board-riding slalom run!” “No, no! Bungee-jumping basketball!”

Personally, what we’re looking forward to is the urban landscape parkour challenge. Nothing brings a mom and her tween closer then cat leaps and kong vaults.

Plan B: just live vicariously and watch this show together.

–Posted by Stephanie Booth