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Teenhood flips the script on raising teenagers, offering an optimistic, funny, and refreshingly realistic guide to navigating these often misunderstood years. Drawing on the latest research and real-life experience, Vanessa Kroll Bennett shares practical strategies for everything from tech and independence to resilience and stress—helping parents enjoy their teens more and take their behavior a little less personally.
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Price: $27.00
Release date: January 19, 2027
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About the Book
Raising teens does not have to suck. Here are the secrets to bringing joy, connection, and laughter to the relationship, by the co-author of the nationally bestselling book about modern puberty, This Is So Awkward.
Conventional wisdom is that teenagers are selfish slobs, obsessed with their phones, driven by raging hormones, and that raising them is a nightmare. But teen whisperer Vanessa Kroll Bennett flips the narrative, arguing that teens can be the funniest, smartest, most caring human beings . . . if we give them the chance.
Calm, optimistic, and entertaining, Bennett offers positive yet realistic guidance for the biggest challenges parents of teens face—from not taking their behavior so personally to managing tech use to pushing back on today’s high-stress culture. Teenhood provides hard-won tenets for confidently stepping into this stage of parenting, including:
• Treat them like jerks, they’ll act like jerks.
• The path to independence is an ultramarathon, not a sprint.
• They’re not ignoring you—you’re just not interesting to them.
• You can’t make them happy, but you can build resilience.
Pairing cutting-edge research about teen development with sanity-saving stories, strategies, and scripts, Teenhood will make the most complex phase of parenting more joyful and less stressful for all.
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About the Author
Vanessa Kroll Bennett is a national bestselling author, podcaster, and teen whisperer who helps adults raise tweens + teens with joy. Her new book Teenhood: Confessions & Lessons for the Trickiest Phase of Parenting will be published by Rodale on January 19, 2027. She is co-author of the bestselling book This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained, co-host of the This Is So Awkward podcast, and Co-founder of Less Awkward, a company dedicated to making growing up more comfortable. Vanessa founded Dynamo Girl, a company focused on building kids’ self-esteem through sports and puberty education. A graduate of Wellesley College, Vanessa holds a Master’s in Jewish History, but perhaps her most important schooling comes from raising her own four children, ages 15 to 23.