Parentalcontrols app eating my processor

Well, it's not literally eating my processor, but it's using quite a bit and I don't know why. I only noticed it yesterday, but in Activity Monitor, there is something called "parentalcontrols" with the user "root" and parent process "launchd." It uses anywhere from 50% to 100% of one of my processors (I have two) and I am wondering how to stop it or at least why it's eating up my processor. I don't see why parental controls could use that much processor just to keep people form opening certain apps and other things like that. (I do have parental controls enabled but I had them enabled in Tiger too and they didn't use up any noticable amount of processor. I don't even remember seeing the "parentalcontrols" app in Tiger but I never looked for it so it may have been there,)
I tried the "Quit" command in Activity Monitor and I had to type in an Admin password but it only quit for a second or two and started back up. I tried this twice, with the same result.

that's the same thing I have.
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