Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have waxed poetic about how their parenting has inspired others, or how others have inspired them. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
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This is my first time participating in the Carnival Of Natural Parenting. My post is entitled: A SAHD’s View on Parenting Role Models
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Please take time to read the submissions by the other carnival participants:
- Woman Seeking Inspiration — Seeking Mother’s struggles and joys to find her own path in motherhood have inspired others — to her surprise! (@seekingmother )
- Paving the Way — Jessica at This is Worthwhile makes a conscious effort every day to be a role model. (@tisworthwhile )
- No Rules Without Reason — The Recovering Procrastinator wants to inspire her husband to discipline their children gently. (@jenwestpfahl)
- Creating a Culture of Positive Parenting Role Models — Michelle at The Parent Vortex shows parents at the playground how to do a front wrap cross carry and tells nurses about her successful home births, as a way of modeling natural parenting in public. (@TheParentVortex)
- Making A Difference for Mamas — Shana at Tales of Minor Interest took an embarrassing pumping incident at work and turned it into an opportunity for all the employees who breastfeed.
- Inspiring Snowflakes — Joni Rae at Tales of Kitchen Witch Momma is a role model for the most important people: her children. (@kitchenwitch)
- Paying it Forward — Amber at Strocel.com inspires new (and often scared) mamas with these simple words: “It will be OK.” (@AmberStrocel)
- A SAHD’s View on Parenting Role Models — Chris at Stay At Home Dad in Lansing doesn’t have many role models as a SAHD — but hopes to be one to his daughter. (@tessasdad)
- Am I a Role Model? A Review — Deb at Science@home brings attachment parenting out of the baby age and shows how it applies (with science fun!) to parenting through all of childhood. (@ScienceMum)
- Say Something Good — Arwyn at Raising My Boychick reminds women that it is within our right to be proud of ourselves without apology. (@RaisingBoychick)
- Try, Try Again — Thomasin at Propson Palingenesis wants to inspire like the Little Engine that Could.
- I’m a Parenting Inspiration, Who Knew? — Sarah at OneStarryNight has received several beautiful comments about just what an inspiration she has been, if not in real life then definitely online. (@starrymom)
- That Little Thing — NavelgazingBajan at Navelgazing demonstrates the ripple effect, one status update at a time. (@BlkWmnDoBF)
- How Has Your Day Been? — mrs green @ littlegreenblog inspired her friend to be an active listener for her children. (@myzerowaste)
- No, Thank You! — If you are reading Maman A Droit’s post, you’ve probably inspired her. (@MamanADroit)
- My Top 3 Natural Parenting Principles — Deb Chitwood at Living Montessori Now describes how her family’s natural and Montessori principles inspired others. (@DebChitwood)
- My Hope for a Better Life — Mandy at Living Peacefully With Children hopes her choices inspire her children toward a better life.
- Natural Parenting Felt Natural — Sheryl at Little Snowflakes didn’t plan on natural parenting — but her son led her there. (@sheryljesin)
- Rest. Is it even possible? — Janet at where birth and feminism intersect has found that even role models need rest — and that there are ways to fit it into everyday parenting life. (@feministbirther)
- May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model — Lauren at Hobo Mama was the fortunate recipient of a seed of inspiration, and has been privileged to plant some of those seeds herself, though she didn’t know it at the time. (@Hobo_Mama)
- crunchspiration — the grumbles at grumbles and grunts wants to inspire others to parent from their heart. (@thegrumbles)
- No Extra Inspiration Required — Zoey at Good Goog doesn’t think she inspires anyone and wasn’t inspired by anyone in return — except by her daughter. (@zoeyspeak)
- Upstream Parenting — Luschka at Diary of a First Child blogs for that one mother in one hundred who will find her words helpful. (@diaryfirstchild)
- Parenting Advice for the Girl from Outer Space — If Mommy Soup at Cream of Mommy Soup could give one piece of inspirational advice to new parents, it would be to parent with kindness. (@MommySoup)
- Natural Parenting Carnival — Role Model — Sarah at Consider Eden feels the pressure at trying — and failing — to live up to her role models. (@ConsiderEden)
- May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role Model — Dionna at Code Name: Mama encourages natural parenting mamas to take joy in the fact that they are touching lives and making a difference to children every day. (@CodeNameMama)
- Inspiration Goes Both Ways — Melodie at Breastfeeding Moms Unite! is flustered that people consider her a breastfeeding role model — but the lovely comments she’s received prove it’s so. (@bfmom)
- My Seven — Danielle at born.in.japan has identified seven role models in her life who brought her to natural parenting. Who are your seven? (@borninjp)
- A Quiet Example — Alison at BluebirdMama was one of the first parents in her group of friends — and has come to see almost all those friends follow in her natural birthing footsteps, whether intentionally or not.
- Gentle Discipline Warrior — Paige at Baby Dust Diaries has inspired a gentle discipline movement — join her! (@babydust)
- Change The World… One Parent At A Time — Mamapoekie is more comfortable inspiring parents online than she is in real life. (@mamapoekie)
- Inspirational Parenting — pchanner at A Mom’s Fresh Start has intentionally tried to be a role model but was unprepared for how soon someone would take notice. (@pchanner)
- My Inspiration — Erin at A Beatnik’s Beat on Life has written thank-you letters to everyone who’s inspired her to become the lactivist and natural parenting advocate she is today. (@babybeatnik)
Twitter Updates
I love your vlog. Thanks so much for participating! I like how you talk about how you’re not doing this SAHD thing to please anyone else or for anyone’s praise or attention — you just seem so matter of fact about it, which is great. We have a good friend here who’s a SAHD for a daughter about the same age, and my own husband and I co-parent since we work from home, and I love seeing the dad side of parenting.
.-= Lauren @ Hobo Mama´s last blog ..May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model =-.
I love this post! It’s so different.
I like the swinging with baby pics!
I so adore SAHD’s… It’s such a strange concept to me, where I’m from even SAHM are well almost non-existant and certainly fringe. So I only recently started wrapping my mind around the SAHD concept. All things considering, I think my huz might be a better SAH then me… I don’t know. I wish we could try that out one day.
Oh count me in as your newest follower
.-= mamapoekie´s last blog ..Change The World… One Parent At A Time =-.
Chris, this was one of my favorite submissions this month. I love the quiet, conversational tone in which you discuss something that’s not the “norm” in our culture. Thank you so much for sharing!
.-= Dionna @ Code Name: Mama´s last blog ..The Joys of Breastfeeding a Toddler #5 =-.
I love the quiet strong tone of this too and the pictures are great. you are a great role model for Tessa and for the growing SAHD community online.
.-= SAHD PDX´s last blog ..A night at the movies =-.
Beautiful slideshow of pictures.
Being a role model to your daughter is the most important role model there is. Anyone else you influence is a bonus.
When you become a stay-at-home parent blogger, it’s sometimes easy to lose the focus on the child(ren) and say “wait a minute honey, I just need to finish typing this.” It looks like you are doing a great job of keeping the focus where it belongs.
My husband is a SAHD for our son too. I think that having a SAHD is a great way to be a role model for your child. For a girl, as you said, to show her how a man should treat a woman, and for my boy, to show him that babies are not just for girls, and that men are nurturing too. I will forward your blog to my husband, I think sometimes he could use the voice of another SAHD!
.-= Shana´s last blog ..Making a Difference For Mamas =-.
I’m so glad to have found your blog! Your story is so like mine and my husbands! He is also a SAHD. I’m going to send him to your blog because you have such great resources.
.-= Paige @ Baby Dust Diaries´s last blog ..Sunday Surf =-.
@Lauren – Thanks so much. I have to say it’s been a terrific 13 months. I would be terribly disappointed to go back to 9-5 work.
@MamaPoekie – Thanks for reading and commenting. I will be following you as well. I see you’re in the Ivory Coast. I spent some time in Uganda and my wife was in the Peace Corps in Namibia. You have World Cup fever yet? Cote d’ Ivorie has a great team. Drogba is one of my fave players!
@Dionna – Thanks so much – I wasn’t sure how it came across. Your kind words mean a lot, believe me.
@SAHDPDX – Right back atcha man. Can’t wait to get the Band started!
@Jen – Thanks. A balance is hard to achieve, but I’m a night owl so I’m able to work on the blog at night after bedtime and occasionally throughout the day during naps and such.
@Shana – Sweet! Tell your husband to check out the blog and say hey. There’s a great community of SAHDs online. I don’t know hardly any where I live so the online community has been my rock.
@Paige – Thanks for reading and commenting. Hope your husband likes the site.
It sounds like you are a GREAT role model for your daughter. I wish that every child had a figure like that in their lives. Breaking down gender stereotypes makes the world a better place, I think.
.-= Amber´s last blog ..Paying it Forward =-.
My husband is a WAHD and I’m currently a SAHM, and we love it. It’s amazing seeing our daughter grow daily, as you say. It’s such a blessing. We’ve had to make sacrifices (movies, dinners, weekends away) but those are things we can have again later in life. This we can never have again. I also firmly believe that the bond between father and daughter determines the daughter’s relationships when she’s an adult – this is time built developing who your daughter is going to be. It’s a beautiful thing!
.-= Luschka´s last blog ..Dealing with Teething Naturally =-.
Some really cool blogs, thanks.