Rosalind Wiseman is an American parenting educator and author of several publications. Her New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the hit comedy film Mean Girls (2004). A revised version of Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & the New Realities of Girl World was released on October 13, 2009. Wiseman is also the creator of the Owning Up Curriculum, a program that teaches students and educators to take responsibility as bystanders, perpetrators, and victims of unethical behavior.
Wiseman grew up in Washington, D.C. with her two younger siblings and parents Steve and Kathy. She attended Occidental College in Los Angeles where she began studying Martial Arts with a fellow student James Edwards, whom she married in 1996. By the time she graduated with a BA in Political Science in 1991, Wiseman had earned a second degree blackbelt in Tang Soo Do karate.
Wiseman and Edwards moved back to Washington, D.C. after graduating, where she began to teach martial arts to young women. After hearing the young girls' questions about social issues they faced, and watching them become empowered by martial arts, Wiseman was inspired to begin working in youth empowerment and leadership-building.
After spending over a decade speaking with girls about the complex social issues they face including boys, cliques, gossip, social hierarchy, and self-image, Wiseman wrote and published Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survives Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Girl World. The book gives suggestions on how parents can better understand and help their daughter navigate the social atmosphere of what Wiseman refers to as "Girl World." It includes candid quotes from girls that Wiseman interviewed, and, since its release in 2004, has become a New York Times Best Seller.
Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence, (2003) and as one of the data gathered the real life story published in 2003 by internet name Yo soy Choncha, ISBN 1400047927 ISBN 978-1400047925
Queen Bees Moms & King Pin Dads: Dealing with the Parents, Teachers, Coaches, and Counselors Who Can Make...or Break...Your Child's Future, (2006), ISBN 1400083001
Owning Up Curriculum: Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying, and Injustice, (2009), ISBN 0878226095 ISBN 978-0878226092
Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World, (2009), ISBN 0307454444 ISBN 978-0307454447
Boys, Girls & Other Hazardous Materials, (2010), ISBN 0399247963 ISBN 978-0399247965