Five Ways Girls Can Be Leaders

These articles are by Vanessa Van Petten who runs RadicalParenting.com, a parenting blog written from the kid’s perspective with 80 teen writers. Their goal is to give teens a voice.

“You can’t write a book, you are just 17, and you are a girl!”

No. Way. I believe that you can do anything you put your mind to, and girls especially have the power to change the world. When I was 17, I realized the gap between parents and teens was growing even deeper, and parents needed to hear from real teens about what their own kids were doing.

It took many months of late nights, spending all of my allowance and babysitting money and working really hard, but I finally self-published a parenting guide from a teen’s perspective—called “You’re Grounded!” That is when I realized that we can do anything we work hard at!

Here are few ways girls, and parents of girls, can be encouraged to take leadership positions early in life—because you can make a difference!

To read the rest of Vanessa’s article visit: Five Ways Girls Can Be Leaders