A new self-help book for teen girls written by Richard Dudum, “What Your Mother Never Told You”, is receiving a lot of attention because of how it deals with issues for teen girls by addressing them directly and strong.
The book has even been described as shocking to some because of how it discusses topics that are not usually addressed by parents or those surrounding teen girls. It brings out the questions that teenage girls may repeatedly ask themselves but do not know the answers to. The topics of the book definitely go straight to the point without any hindrances.

Some examples of the teen issues that Dudum covers in the book include:
• How to always have a game plan
• 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
• How to tell your parents
• How to avoid the consequences of dressing and acting like a 'ho'

The entire self-help book is 245 pages and is composed of sixty-three chapters.
Dudum has definite compassion for the situations that teenage girls find themselves in, in this day and age. Not only does he show them understanding but he offers them practical and useful advice. The good thing about the book is that it talks to teenagers in a language that they can connect to and understand.
Not only does “What Your Mother Never Told You” help the teen daughters but it also helps the parents understand their girls. Through reading the book, parents are motivated to communicate with their teen daughters, using the self-help book as the very instrument for communication. The book itself does not have to be the only answer to several teenage girl issues but it may be the starting point for personalized solutions which both parents and their teens can come up with together.
"Leave a copy on the kitchen table with the bookmark in the Chapter you want to discuss, your teen is curious and will read that Chapter....then you have something to talk about. Controversy creates communication. Pretending things aren't happening to your teenage girls is asking for trouble. Start talking before it's too late," says Dudum.