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IKEA sells furniture, but it may also want to sell tissues because you'll need them after watching this ad.

Let's see if this sounds familiar: You call your child - no answer.  You try again - straight to voice mail.  You send him/her a text - no response.  Frustration turns to worry until you see that the text has been read, but still no answer from your child.

A father from Detroit noticed that his 13 year old daughter was receiving online messages from a man that wanted to meet her.  So the dad decided to pose online as the daughter and ended up coming face to face with the predator and was even able to get a videotaped confession from the thug.  Check out the video report from Fox 2.

A Massachusetts father gives his children a reason, beyond the possibility of string cheese, to look forward to lunch. David Laferriere of Attleboro has been drawing on his kids' sandwich bags for the past five years, posting pics of each doodle to his flickr account.

The day a teen gets his or her own iPhone is usually one of the happiest of their youth. They're finally seen as responsible, semi-independent individuals. However, this 13-year-old, whose mother decided to attach her own 18-point agreement of rules and guidelines in exchange for the phone, might have reason to look for happier days.

Some species eat their young. In North Carolina, they just ink them. Last month, the Havelock Police Department arrested Odessa Clay, 30, for giving her 11-year-old daughter a small, heart-shaped tattoo on her shoulder. Clay now faces one count of tattooing a person under the age of 18 because apparently it is against the law for anyone to tattoo a minor in the state of North Carolina, even if the

Naming a child is usually the first big decision a new parent makes, and one that almost one and ten would like to do be able to do again.