What does the mother of a teenage girl talk about with her daughter?
What subjects and challenges do teenage girls face today?
What do I teach my daughter now that I am a young mother myself?
Written by a mother who has raised her daughter to adulthood, here are the letters she wrote to her daughter over a period of ten years, expressing her heart, her love, her desires, and her wisdom.
Janis Kristiansen was born in Seattle and raised in Washington State. She is married to her husband of over thirty years, Washington State Representative Dan Kristiansen, who serves in the legislature as the Washington State House Minority Leader. They have two grown sons, a daughter-in-law, and a daughter in college. They also helped raise a third “son” as they call him, starting when he was in high school. Janis has served in various capacities, helping women for years; in Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) when her kids were young, for a few years as a pre-marriage counselor with her husband, and as Family Life group leaders in two churches. She currently is a small group leader of a high school girls’ bible study, and serves as a MOPS mentor.
She has a bachelor of science degree in the College of Forestry from the University of Washington. For her professional career, she is the Vice President and environmental coordinator for a manufacturing firm and serves on the regulatory affairs committee for the trade association involving the industry.Marriage and motherhood are two subjects she has spent a lot of time learning and writing about. Helping girls and women navigate these issues is her passion.
She may be contacted through her blog: MotherhoodMatters.org
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