While dozens of parenting books address child development, Ann Pleshette Murphy's THE 7 STAGES OF MOTHERHOOD addresses the development of mothers, who are transformed right alongside their children. As the former editor of Parents magazine and current parenting contributor to Good Morning America, Murphy brings the voices of the experts and a decade of her own knowledge and unforgettable stories from her own life to bear on this book. The mother separating from her nursery-school-aged child is vastly different from the mother caring for her newborn baby, who, in turn, differs from the mother of a teenage son or daughter. In tandem with a child's development, a mother experiences changes for which she is often completely unprepared for, including shifts in her friendships, her professional expectations, her marriage, and her deepest desires.
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" This book was helpful at the time. When you are the parent of a toddler you need to know that it does eventually end. "
— Nicole, 5/26/2011" I didn't ever really get "into" this book. "
— Jeri, 11/10/2008" not unlike listening to a good friend who's 'been there before' "
— Suzanquick, 2/26/2008Ann Pleshette Murphy joined Good Morning America as parenting expert in 1998. Since then, more than two hundred “American Family” segments have aired. In 2002, two of her segments received a media award from the National Council on Family Relations, and a segment on teen drivers received an award from MADD in 2003. For ten years she was the editor in chief of Parents magazine. Her bimonthly column, “Mom Know-How,” currently appears in Family Circle. She resides in New York City with her husband and two children.
Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.