Place a copy of What Your Mother Never Told You on the kitchen table with a bookmark on the chapter you want your parents to read. Your parents will get the message. Later, ask them what they think. Listen to your parents point of view and their expectations. This will help you set your own expectations.  Let your parents know your point of view and your feelings about the topics you want to discuss. Decide what you expect of yourself. Agree. Agree to disagree. Communicate with your parents.

You are changing every day. Some times you feel you can take on the world. Other times, you feel confused, frustrated and overwhelmed. During these times, What Your Mother Never Told You is a trusted best friend. The book is truthful and honest and is always there for you to lean on for tips and advice. At times you may want to tune me out when reading this book. It’s OK if we disagree. The book is my conversation with you. I am confident that you can handle what life is going to throw at you and I have no doubt that you can handle the tough love in my message. At a minimum, use this book to challenge yourself; to be open to the possibility that we are not always right. Use the book as a tool to learn the strategy to agree to disagree. 

What Your Mother Never Told You isn't just about helping you work through troubling issues and relationships; the chapters will improve all your relationships. As you practice communicating in a calm, intelligent, and sensitive way, using strategies from What Your Mother Never Told You, you will take more control of your life.

As mothers, there may be issues you may not be comfortable addressing with your teens. Perhaps your own teen years bring up difficult and even unpleasant memories, or you fear being asked questions you don't want to answer.

Fathers, too, risk their daughters' deaf ear when trying to help them prepare for sensitive teen situations. After all, as fathers, how can we fully disclose what goes through the mind of a teenage boy before the conversation becomes awkward and uncomfortable?

What Your Mother Never Told You can have the conversation for you. It provides answers you really want to give to questions your daughters really want to ask. It opens up doors to dialogue between our daughters and parents when they are ready to talk. Put a copy by their bedside and another in the family room, and bookmark the chapter you want to discuss. Our daughters are curious and smart; they will see the bookmarked page, read it, and they'll get the message.

Our daughters may hear advice but forget what they need to know the next time they're in the midst of a sticky situation. What Your Mother Never Told You is a handy reference guide that will help them to remember how to protect themselves when they are alone; when they have questions and need answers before they make their most difficult decisions.

What Your Mother Never Told You can also be used to initiate group discussions, and each Chapter can be used as the daily topic of discussion for any syllabus. For example, you can read the short chapter "The Most Important Word in the Dictionary is No," and then have girls role-play, and watch and listen to each other, saying "No" in situations they create. This is one example of the many interactive ways What Your Mother Never Told You can help make your difficult job a little easier.

Let's be real. We both know that my book is certainly not the answer to every issue facing our teens, but it the Chapters will catch their attention, and the book does create the opportunity to discuss sensitive topics whether or not you/they agree or disagree with the message or my approach! The Chapter titles will catch their attention. They will read the book. The dialogue that ensues will teach our teens to problem solve through your discussions. My book is a start. It's a tool. It's what You make of it. After all, you are the counselors for our adolescent teens.  What Your Mother Never Told You helps you counsel.