On Youth and Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

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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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7 Year-Old Me: Dad, can I have a quarter for the gum machine?
Dad: Why don’t you use your allowance?
Me: Um, because I used it to buy candy yesterday after-school.
Dad: Well, you get 5 dollars a week and that’s it. That’s you’re a-llow-ance.
Me: Man, allowance sucks.
Oh, I wish I had [...]

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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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(This is part of Vanessa’s “Operation Oprah” series to start a business on her allowance, told through video’s and blog posts. By depicting her comic and sometimes exasperating struggles, successes and tactics to get on Oprah, publish the project as a book about teen entrepreneurs and prove that teens can reach the top from [...]

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