You're Grounded!: How to Stop Fighting and Make the Teenage Years Easier [Paperback]

Vanessa Van Petten (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 7, 2007

This is Vanessa Van Petten's first published work. It is currently out of print. For the new edition, please check out Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I'm Grounded? or visit her website RadicalParenting.com

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About the Author

Vanessa Van Petten wrote You’re Grounded! when she was a senior in high school after conducting hundreds of interviews with teens, parents, and teachers in Los Angeles, California, where she grew up and still lives today. Her new book, Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I'm Grounded? is currently available. Visit RadicalParenting.com for more information.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (May 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059543875X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595438754
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #929,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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. She is also on this season of Real Housewives of Orange County helping the parents and teens.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have!, June 5, 2007

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Adam Press "Adam P" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You're Grounded!: How to Stop Fighting and Make the Teenage Years Easier (Paperback)

Totally different from any other parenting book I have read. Finally, a glimpse into a teens life from a teen perspective. It was well received when I gave two copies (one for my friend the parent and one for her teenager) as gifts. Anyone who is around teens should read this book to understand them better.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From a working Mom, June 10, 2007

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Anita F. "Anita F." (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You're Grounded!: How to Stop Fighting and Make the Teenage Years Easier (Paperback)

When you are working so many hours outside of the home, you can feel out of touch with your teen. This book provided some great ways to dialogue with my daughter. Vanessa Van Petten's personal experience and practical tips were really helpful. She was able to synthesize her extensive research into succinct and helpful stories for us to share and discuss. I laughed out loud at some of her interviews while with others I could have sworn she was talking about the situation with my own daughter.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My teens loved it!, June 12, 2007

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Brian Weiner "author, children's literature" (Woodland Hills, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You're Grounded!: How to Stop Fighting and Make the Teenage Years Easier (Paperback)

My family (myself, my wife and two kids) all read the book at the same time. It was really helpful in just getting us talking. Some advice my kids really liked, and other sections my wife and I found extremely helpful and then we were able to talk about her strategies and make our own. A totally different kind of approach to parenting books and advice, more collaborative than I was with my parents which is what the our kids generation is all about.