For the Love of Kids^® 2007 Practical Parenting Conference

Ann Pleshette Murphy – Morning Keynote Speaker

WORKSHOP TITLE:  The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Loving your life without losing your mind

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:  Motherhood is the ultimate transformation, a powerful and thrilling metamorphosis. Yet, most parenting experts focus on the how-to’s of baby and child care, not on the care or development of mothers. This workshop addresses the challenges and opportunities mothers face at every stage of motherhood – from pregnancy through the teen years. In addition to sharing hilarious anecdotes from her own history as a mom, Ann Pleshette Murphy discusses how to be a mother, not Mother Teresa; how small acts of caring count; avoiding parenting by guilt; and much more!

Ann Pleshette Murphy, author of The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Making the Most of Your Life as a Mom, is the parenting contributor to ABC’s Good Morning America. A sought-after national parenting speaker, Ann Pleshette Murphy is an AOL parenting coach, a ParentSmart columnist for USA Weekend magazine, and the former editor-in-chief of Parents Magazine. She serves on the board of Zero to Three in Washington, D.C., the leading national organization dedicated to the development of infants and toddlers, and she chairs the board of the Greyston Family Inn in Yonkers, NY, which provides housing, social services and child care to formerly homeless families. She’s also the mother of two.