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Who Are We?

You might be wondering why a 24 year-old and a bunch of teenagers care about parenting, as this blog is written by Vanessa Van Petten and 80 other teen writers. You can read Vanessa’s Story, but all of us have decided to help other families because of the experiences we have had with our own. All of our mentors and teen writers have a passion for inspiring and enlightening other parents and kids.

We understand that sharing our story, insight and advice can help others to not suffer or make the same mistakes as we did.

Youthologist: Someone who studies, follows, and observes youth trends, activities and issues.

Vanessa calls herself a youthologist because she loves working with and helping youth. Not only does she work with hundreds of youth everyday writing articles, discussing current issues for teens and tweens, but also helping navigate the early years so they can be successful adults.

Three rules we live by:

(and Wish Our Parents Would Too)

1) There are no ‘perfect parents’, formulas, easy answers or a ‘right’ way to parent. There is a right way for your family. We want to help you find your way.

2) Live the You-Them-You Perspective. We promise to share our side, our stories and our secrets, to give you a glimpse into our world.

3) Constantly challenge what we think we know. ‘Radical’ means to question the status quo and what isn’t working. This is how we grow as a family and as human beings.

[See our Radical Parenting Principles]

Our Parentology:

We are not your typical parenting blog!

-Challenging: We don’t give formulas and easy steps, we push our readers and radical parents to a new kind of family interaction. Having harmonious families, means having happy teens, which leads to healthy adults.

-Community Parenting: We want to bring together parents and teens, parents and parents and teens and teens to help each other. We hope that our website can provide many forums and tools to find other readers like you.

-Confessions: Our under 18 year-old writers get to be anonymous and this lets us open up to you, our parent readers, in ways we wish we could open up to our parents. Our teen trendsetters behind the scenes constantly scour blogs, social networks and schools looking for radical teens willing to share and join our cause.

-Quality: We try very hard to make sure our articles, writers and tribe leaders believe in positive family values and our radical parenting principles. We promise to politely exclude those who hinder other community’s goals.

-Youthologists: Today’s familynomics are rapidly changing and we hope to give you a crash course as well as continued insight into current trends and long-term generational shifts.

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At most, we know our Radical Parenting ideas can be a little too untraditional for every parent to adopt as a family lifestyle. It takes dedication to tackle bad habits and work to walk the untraditional road with your teens. We believe this is the only way to get the ultimate rewards—a truly close and happy family.

It has been risky for us to say, that as teens we want change. We want to have an easy, fun and, dare we say it, close relationship with our parents. If you are willing to take some risks and try something new…make the leap and take The Radical Parenting Pledge. We challenge you to try.