Books

You’re Grounded Book

A parenting book from the kid’s perspective. In this breakthrough guide to understanding teenagers, author Vanessa Van Petten (see bio here) gives teenagers tricks to extend their curfew and tells parents how to convince their teens to pick up after themselves. Every topic is brought onto the table, as Van Petten delves into teenage sex, underage drinking, video games and teen drug use. Her candor and personal anecdotes help teenagers to not feel alone in their experience of the tumultuous teenager

years, while also calming parents fears by telling them how to prevent these issues from happening to their own children.

The Radical Family Workbook and Activity Journal is for Parents, Kids and Teens

Vanessa Van Petten and 20 of her teen interns wrote this family workbook to give parents real advice and bonding activities that will actually work! In this series, we put together 30 sessions worth of challenges and activities to help your family re-start, re-energize and re-connect.

In each session, families will get a set of challenges, materials and action steps to do for about 30 minutes. Families can work through the Radical Family Workbook at their own pace! You could do a session every day or one every three months! This is for families with children of all ages. Younger children can even participate in many of the activities and family bonding times.

Dirt-E Secrets of An Internet Kid

An ebook by Vanessa Van Petten, is a translation for parents about kids growing up online. Vanessa divulges how kids get around parental controls, set-up decoy Facebook accounts and what situations are most sticky for digital kids, teens and tweens. She also reviews the Holy Cybercitizenship laws, how to use parental control softwares and reviews the most popular websites for kids and teens.

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