By simply visiting the Parents Portal on MEEPTablet.com from any device with a web browser (computer, smart phone, tablet), parents can not only hand-pick ("whitelist") which websites or keywords their kids have or don't have access to, but they can add words to the tablet's built-in "bad word" list so their child will not be able to search for those words or use them in the chat feature.

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And every parent knows that the active ingredient of bad-tasting medicine has more chance of getting inside a child if delivered with the motivating ingredient of cherry flavor.

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One theory is that the city is captured by its history, locked into multi-generational patterns of bad behaviour that get passed from parent to child.

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American parents can pretty much name their child anything, says Michael Sherrod, co-author of Bad Baby Names: The Worst True Names Parents Saddled Their Kids With.

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One word on the trick-or-treating question: As a child, adults told me that bad people "often" put razor blades in apples, or put poison into candy at Halloween.

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Bad debt is a common problem among child care centers, especially those in middle- to lower-income communities.

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While fellow bubble poster child Henry Blodget was kicked out of the securities business after privately bad-mouthing stocks on which he had buy ratings, investigators never laid a glove on Meeker.

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The most upsetting thing about many child-protection rules is they assume any adult is capable of doing something bad.

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Because you better believe that when girls are out there making bad choices, that has to do with self-esteem and there's nothing like a father to help a child develop his or her self-esteem.

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