Margaret bought a nifty toddler toy at a garage sale last weekend. It's a "Leap Frog" pull-along alphabet caterpillar. It's a pretty good toy... its antennae light up when you turn it on. But wait- there's more! It has 26 legs- each for a different letter. Depending on what setting you switch it to, when you press a leg it will say the name of the letter, the colour of the leg or the sound the letter makes.
That last feature is especially important it seems to older siblings.
So our two boys tried it out and discovered it even comes with a built-in swear filter. If you try to make it say the "F" word by pressing the relevant letters in quick succession it giggles when you get to the third letter!
Poor speller? No problem! It anticipates big brother's attempts to substitute similar sounding letters and produces the embarrassed giggle regardless.
Clearly this toy has been well tested in real life families!
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