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[HTML1] More about Vanessa Van Petten
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 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 is RadicalParenting.com, which she writes with 120 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.  Her approach of bringing parents and teens together as well as adapting social and emotional intelligence for parents has made her popular in the media. She has been featured on CNN, CBS Miami and Fox New York and has been in the Wall Street Journal, Teen Vogue, and many more.  She was also on the Real Housewives of Orange County helping the parents and teens.

Her next book, Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I’m Grounded? will launch in September 2011 with Plume Books of Penguin USA.

About Joanie Winberg & Lesley Hatfield

Joanie Winberg is the CEO of FreshStartAfterDivorce.com and Lesley Hatfieldis the CEO of NiteSweatz.com. Their passion is to provide single parents with the necessary life skills to be the best they can be for themselves as well as their children.

Joanie and Lesley are also the Hosts of The Single Again! Now What? Radio Show on WomensRadio. The Single Again! Now What? Radio Show offer audiences methods on how to "Survive and Thrive" after a loss, a divorce or as a single parent! Listen to special guests from around the world each week sharing tips and tools to support, encourage and inspire individuals during transitional times in their lives. Brought to you by the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children.