What Every Mother Should Tell Their Daughters: A Book for Women

TheNita
Book Surge (2006)
ISBN 1419615947
Reviewed by Kelli Glesige for Reader Views (3/07)

The relationship between a mother and daughter is explored in this book about healthy emotional connections.  It discusses giving the very best that life has to offer in the hopes of stopping generational illness that is passed from mother to daughter to granddaughter.  The book is all about love; first how to love yourself, and then how to love your daughter while teaching her to love herself.  Giving motherly love and wisdom can save a daughter from much heartache and pain that she would, otherwise, eventually learn the hard way and on her own.

Author TheNita overcame life lessons learned the hard way by pulling herself up from difficult circumstances, overcoming adversities and bad decisions, living in far from ideal living conditions, and abuse.  Sharing her recollections, TheNita tells what she has learned, hoping to curb others from making the same mistakes.  She shares the critical role God has played in her life, encouraging others to seek his strength and guidance also.

At only 58 pages, this book is small, but it offers helpful information that can benefit others immensely.  Troubled teens or single moms might find it to their particular advantage.  Reading about how the author made changes in her life can motivate others to know they too can change.  One has the power to change if the desire and knowledge is present.  TheNita provides her method of obtaining both to enable that change.

“What Every Mother Should Tell Their Daughters” was not what I thought it would be: it is more than just an advice book for mothers.  Through her counsel, the author has helped her own mother and her sons.  She gives guidance because of the love she holds for her mother and because she wants her mother to enjoy the things she is blessed with now.  “The goal,” states TheNita, “is to stop negative and abusive cycles now—do not carry them to future generations.”  I recommend this book to anyone, particularly females, hoping to raise well-rounded and emotionally stable daughters or sons.

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