W.O.R.D.S. For A Determined Teen Mom ~ Tips, Motivation & Fierce Advice To Beat The Odds

This book is a fun yet informative way to discuss character building, values clarifications and parent education. Familiar words are broken down into manageably sized success principles. W.O.R.D.S. For A Determined Teen Mom was born out of a request for more information and inspiration from me during my many years of motivational speaking to youth groups.

I got pregnant at age fifteen, became a parent at sixteen, worked two jobs and graduated from high school at seventeen and moved out and went to college at eighteen. I am a graduate from the school of hard knocks. My diploma comes from the experience of teen pregnancy, early parenthood, and being a single parent for more than 20 years.

I know first hand the struggles that young parents face with regards to raising children while still trying to be raised by parents themselves. I understand the challenges of peer pressures while being pregnant in high school. I know the struggle to build high self-esteem while in the midst of a broken relationship.

I know what it means to be poor and to search inside myself to find solutions that would provide money so me and my child wouldn’t go hungry. I know how to stay afloat when hard times hit, without using drugs, sex or illegal activities to numb the pain of depression.

I’ve learned a lot from my life experiences. I’ve learned from more seasoned parents, lectures, books and classes how to be a successful young parent. This qualifies me to write from my heart with the intention of sharing hope, faith and encouragement with other young parents who are walking in the same shoes.

I know young parents face unique challenges in that their peers, who are usually their greatest source of information, fall short when it comes to handling pregnancy, baby care, broken relationships and baby daddy drama. This book is aimed at young teen mothers because that is where most of my experience comes from.

However, young fathers can benefit from the wisdom shared in the pages of this book as well. There are things we as young mothers must learn as early as possible with regards to life, parenting, social relationships and values. The sooner we learn who we are and what we stand for, the better for our children and us. We must learn to take care of ourselves inside and out in order to be strong for our children and our life journey.

Many of the short life lessons in this book, I learned in my mid twenties and thirties. If I only knew then what I know now, my life would have been drastically different. I would have been a much better parent, I’d be further along in my career and I would have definitely had less stress related health problems. I hope you learn these lessons now and embark on a fabulous life!

You can use this book as a pocket-sized tool to help build you into the strong, proud, young parent you should be. Feel free to take a letter a day or a whole word, while learning the success principles. Internalize the information and seek practical ways of utilizing it in your everyday life. When you pick up this book later in life, the principles will still work.

As you change and grow the principles will still work and when your children grow up, pass the book on because the principles are time tested and will still be relevant. So start, stay on, and value your life journey with the success principles found in W.O.R.D.S. For A Dtermined Teen Mom, I wish you the best in your parenting career and in your destiny.