Dear Mom: Everything Your Teenage Daughter Wants You to Know but Will Never Tell You
Melody Carlson
WaterBrook Press, 2009, 224 pp., $13.99
www.randomhouse.com/waterbrook
With the many books out there about how to parent teens, it is difficult to find a text that is unique and different from others, yet this book is it.
Written as a letter from a teenage daughter to her mother, this text helps mothers get into the minds of teenage girls. It does more than advise what you should and shouldn’t do; it helps parents listen and understand.
It not only presents thoughts, but knowing a possible response, it presents a rebuttal. Most of all, it reassures parents that teens are trying to find their places in this world; and they need their parents now more than ever.
