On Youth and Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

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While working with parents and kids, I have learned quite quickly that most dreams that parents have for their kids are not so wild, in fact they really all boil down to one concept:
Happiness before success.
Most of us, including myself, believe that if you are happy that is success.   I wanted to put together a [...]

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A Video Resume:
Most of my friends do not have jobs, do not plan on getting jobs and have no idea what they would do even if they wanted to get a job.
I am 23 and my parents had to hold it together while I started my own business and tried to explain to them what [...]

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This is part of my “Operation Oprah” series to start a business on my allowance and tell my story through videos and blog posts. By depicting my comic and sometimes exasperating struggles, successes and tactics to get on Oprah, publish a series of teen-parent books as a teen entrepreneur, I want to prove that teens [...]

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As many of my readers know I mentor teens privately in Los Angeles and via web cam and phone all over the world.
I have found that mentoring and coaching has been extremely rewarding for my clients (and for me!) because it offers teens, tweens and kids one on one time with an older (but still [...]

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