apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

• Ni Hao Kai-lan: An advisory team of educators put together this show, meant to cross the interactivity of Blue's Clues and the bilingualism of Dora the Explorer, and featuring the voice of Jade-Lianna Peters, an American actress adopted from China.

• Scissor Sisters: Super-cute scissors, and the joy of 'arbitrary hierarchy'.

• Grandmum? Nope, just Mum: Confronting your inner judge is an act of bravery.

• Nit-picking (literally): They go through the schools like wildfire, while we all cross our fingers and hope it isn't our kid caught scratching her head and being sent home with a lice kit.