Richard Dudum

Parents and Caregivers

2008-01-18T15:30:00.000-08:00

Our children often tune us out. We all need help talking to them about sensitive subjects and teaching them how to protect themselves. Through frank and honest talk, What Your Mother Never Told You gives you that help.

As mothers, there may be issues you are not comfortable addressing. Perhaps your own teen years bring up 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 dialogues between our daughters and us 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'll get the message.

"Your book gave my daughter the confidence to talk to me. It also empowered me to open up a dialogu

Survival Guide for Teens

2008-01-18T15:27:00.001-08:00

How can your parents, teachers, and counselors teach you what you need to know without saying a word? By giving you a copy of What Your Mother Never Told You.

How can you open a dialogue about sensitive issues with your parents without saying a word? By leaving What Your Mother Never Told You on the kitchen table with a bookmark on the chapter you want them to read. They'll get the message.

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. It is truthful and honest and always there for you to lean on.

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.

I hope to hear from you as you practice what you have learned and as you show the world what you've got!

''What Your Mother Never Told You'' - Review

2008-01-18T15:20:00.000-08:00

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 27, 2007 -- ''What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls'' treads where most self-help books are afraid to go. Written by Richard Dudum, father of two daughters and two sons, this new book gives strong, clear answers to the dilemmas facing teen girls today. Don't be misled by the beautiful cover, the book is hard hitting and to the point.

''What Your Mother Never Told You'' is written for teenage girls and goes where no other self-help book has dared go -- to the heart of questions teenage girls are asking and really, really want to know how to answer.

Dudum dives deep into the most sensitive teen issues: how to drink at a party, how to get up and leave before it's too late, how to deal with mean girls and protect yourself from manipulative boys, how to handle the Internet, how to anticipate and avoid the wrong place and wrong time, and how to avoid the consequences of dressing and acting like a 'ho'. He understands the environment and predicament that teen girls face. ''What Your Mother Never Told You'' gives practical, useful and effective tools, strategies and even monologues providing common sense advice in language that teens can use, understand and immediately apply.

''What Your Mother Never Told You'' is aimed not just at teenage girls; it opens doors to understanding and communication by clarifying for parents the realities in the "teen girl world," then gently yet effectively encouraging parents to use the self-help book as a tool to open dialogue with their teens to work together through sensitive issues.

"Pretending things aren't happening to your teenage girls is asking for trouble," says Dudum. "Start talking before it's too late."

Richard Dudum is a San Francisco lawyer, musician, Realtor, summer-camp director, community leader and cancer survivor. He's been married for 25 years. ''What Your Mother Never Told You'' offers clear-sighted perspective and no-nonsense self-help advice from a father with the ability to convey tough love in a kind and supportive manner.

Richard Dudum is available for interviews immediately.