If, like me, you have teenagers in the house making you a tad insane, next week’s talk with Vanessa Van Petten may answer some of your more pressing questions, like… when will my teenage stepson grow out of his mutant alien stage?
Summit Series for Families has put together a pretty awesome online event bringing together parents, educators and teenagers to discuss issues that affect our families. They’ve invited eight authors to talk about their books and are opening up the lines for live calls and will also be taking questions by email.
Tuesday October 6, 2009 8:00 PM EST
Vanessa Van Petten is one of the nation’s youngest experts, or ‘youthologists’ on parenting and adolescents. She wrote her 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.
For a complete listing of October events visit www.summitseriesforfamilies.com/events These events are free! Visit the Summit Series site and they’ll send you dial-in information, and instructions for submitting questions to the authors in advance.
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