Do you have a "mom (or dad) idol", as in someone you know who you think she/he is doing such a great job in parenting, and you wish you were more like her/him? What do they do which makes you want to be more like her/him?
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My cousin- she has 5 and they are such great little people such a sense of family and community. My sister- she infuses such a sense of fun and imagination in her kids lives. My friend- I love how she teaches her kids to respect others and pick up on non verbal cues from other children. There are parenting qualities I appreciate in most of the people in my life- Moms and Dads alike.
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@youboots: That's so sweet.
For me I have a mom idol - it is my husband's high school friend's wife. They moved abroad from the US for work, and she would take their 3 kids (something like 9, 6 and 4 then) on a Europe train / back pack trip all by herself.
We visited them when her youngest was an infant. DS wasn't born yet. We went to a restaurant for dinner - all the kids were so well behaved, and at the end of dinner, she just casually started breastfeeding her youngest. No one cried or fight or nothing, and the adults all had uninterrupted grown up conversations (now I have a kid I know that it can be very hard). She just made it look so easy, and she was the one who inspired me to be successful in breastfeeding, and she doesn't even know it!
We visited them again when DS was roughly 1-ish years old. Their oldest son took out a ton of wooden trains and tracks to play with him. My son literally took apart what her son built, and their sweet boy just looked at him and smiled with a very understanding smile, and just built something else. There was no crying or conflict. DS didn't want to leave but we had a cab coming to pick us up, so she interacted with him with a bunch of distractions and just smoothly "transported" him to the door and we got into the cab and no one cried! Gosh. She is a magical unicorn to me.
On top of that - she takes good care of herself and she looks youthful and good, in a very down-to-earth way. She runs marathons and you can not tell 3 children came out of her body.
I have other moms that I highly respect too but she definitely is on mount Everest for me.
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I don't know that I have an idol, per say, but there are a lot of moms I look up to, including my own. My dad traveled a lot for work for many years, so my mom had the three of us on her own a lot. She was firm, and we had boundaries and rules we knew we needed to follow, but she was also so relaxed and chill. I don't remember her EVER losing her temper or yelling at us. I try to be like that with my own daughter.
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I have an old work colleague who I've remained friends with via Facebook but we are no longer close. She is, however, close to a mutual friend of ours so I do see her at kids parties etc, and the occasional social event. She had children late, like me - in fact, she had them a little later - and she just took to it like a duck to water. She seems so relaxed and happy around her children and talks about how she will get out of bed in the night if one of them calls out that he wants a hug because, y'know, they're her world etc. And she looks FANTASTIC! She totally got her figure back and always makes the effort. She's just rocking it!
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