12-Year-Old Ready

Thomas Russell, Wendy: - Wendy Thomas Russell is an award-winning journalist, author, and editor. Following her career as an investigative reporter for a dailynewspaper, she spent several years as the parenting columnist for PBS NewsHour, while founding a boutique publishing company called Brown Paper Press. She is the author of Relax, It's Just God: How and Why to Talk to Your Kids About Religion When You're Not Religious and the co-author of ParentShift: Ten Universal Truths That Will Change the Way You Raise Your Kids. Russell lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband and teenage daughter.