Virginia Beane Rutter: Embracing Persephone

New Holland Publishers

$29.95

If you are the mother of a teenage girl, this is for you.

Most such mothers struggle with issues such as their daughter's growing independence and need for privacy versus the need for good communication; or her interest in sex, drugs and alcohol versus the mother's concern for her daughter's safety.

You can't re-do your own adolescence, Rutter warns, but you can heal wounds by using what you learned to mother your daughter. Wise and helpful.