About Us
Vanessa Van Petten is one of the nation’s youngest experts, or ‘youthologists’ on parenting and adolescents.
After winning the Mom’s Choice Award in 2009 and launching her popular parenting websites, 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.
She writes with 75 other teenage writers from ages 12 to 20, and her websites on Study Skills and parenting are read by thousands of teens and adults daily and have been featured on hundreds of other parenting sites around the web as the only teen written parenting advice.
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 wrote her first parenting book from the teen’s perspective, called “You’re Grounded!,” when she was just 17.
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