My Mom Was my Dad is not just another book on parenting. This book was written to help single mothers deal with raising boys. Based on my life story of how I was raised in a single - parent home due to the death of my father, I wanted to take single mothers on a journey of what they will face as they try to raise a boy to a man. I cover deep topics such as, the discussion of the bird's and the bee's, along with showing a young man how to pay bills and also about sports. This book is much more than the average how-to-book on parenting. Once I started to reminisce about my childhood, my memory overflowed with incidents and events long forgotten! I started to laugh and shed a few tears at the same time when I decided to write this book about my mom and my childhood! Readers may do the same as they walk with me through my first-hand accounts of my mom, Rena Johnson's, humorous and sometime confusing job of making a Man out of a Boy!