Mothers as role models.

I would definitely see my Dad as a role model. He's been dead now for nearly 12 years but I think of him every day in one way or other. Mum was a very different matter. Almost an anti role model -a how not to be! Memories of my 2 Grans certainly act as role models for me with my DGSs. I'd like to be as good as them at being a Gran.

My mother is still alive and as I get older I can see me getting more like her!

In a way my mother was a role model. She was an excellent and fun mum until I hit puberty - and she hit the menopause. Then her jealous paranoid streak kicked in and everything went to pot. Nowadays, if I'm a bit 'off' with anyone, someone in the imediate family just comes in with a 'Yes, Nana' to bring me up short.

I've said this before on here but my mum was, largely, a model of how not to mother! She was much more concerned about how things appeared to the neighbours than developing a relationship with me and she much preferred her sons anyway!