Vanessa, age 24, from Los Angeles, CA loves helping parents and youth and wrote her first nationally acclaimed parenting book from the kid’s perspective at the age of 16.
This book was also writte...view moreVanessa, age 24, from Los Angeles, CA loves helping parents and youth and wrote her first nationally acclaimed parenting book from the kid’s perspective at the age of 16.
This book was also written with 20 of the Radical Parenting teen writers, meet a few of them:
Sarah, age 16 from Kansas City, Kansas who loves writing, her friends and the swim team.
Brad, age 14 from Sacramento, California who loves to skateboard, listen to music and hang out online.
Chelsea, age 17 from Cambridge, England who is obsessed with poetry and her dog, snuffles.
Marni, age 12 from Denver, Colorado loves Club Penguin, can’t wait to be on Facebook and wishes her mom let her get an iPod.
Mark, age 17 from Washington, D.C. is applying to College, loves building cars with his dad and wants to be a race car driver.
Vanessa Van Petten works with thousands of teens everyday. She is one of the nation's youngest experts, or 'youthologists' on parenting and adolescents. She wrote her first parenting book from the teen's perspective, called "You're Grounded!," when she was just 17. After winning the Mom’s Choice Award in 2009 and launching her popular parenting blog, she is now on a national speaking tour, reaching out to both parents and teenagers talking about what young people really wish adults knew about them.
Her blog: RadicalParenting.com, which she writes with 75 other teenage writers from ages 12 to 20, is read by thousands of teens and adults daily and has been featured on hundreds of other parenting sites around the web as the only teen written parenting blog. She has been featured on CNN, CBS Miami and Fox New York and has been in the Wall Street Journal, Teen Vogue, Atlanta Insite Magazine and the World Journal. She has been an expert on numerous radio programs including Playboy Radio, KBUR, WCOJ Philadelphia and more for giving a young perspective on awesome parenting. She is now 24 and living in Los Angeles, CA.view less
Radical Family Workbook and Activity Journal for Parents, Kids and Teens: Written by Teens, This Is a Totally New Approach to the Traditional Family Meeting with Activities to Bond, Connect and Inspire Families of All Kinds.