Parenting role models

[jewel441]

Do you have any? What do you like about there style, etc?

[jewel441]

So my life long best friend came to visit us at the beach this past week. She is 3 years older than me and we grew up across the street from each other. I have basically looked up to her my whole life. Although we are very different people and there are plenty of things she does that I would never want to do, seeing her in action with a 2.5 year old and a 2 month old I definitely felt like a kid again looking up to the big kid next door. She definitely gave me some for real parenting goals. And I am pretty much planning to copy her discipline methods 100%. She was an elementary school teacher before she had kids so I am sure that gave her lots of discipline practice. Also I know some kids are just easier than others...

Some things I love:
1. She uses the two choices method to diffuse potential meltdowns (like you can either do this or that, where both things are acceptable to you. I even saw it work for giving a time out (you can have it on the couch or the stars, which do you want and off her kid marched to the stairs)
2. Post time out follow through, where you ask the kid why they were in time out and get them to apologize. I have seen this on Super Nanny before too.
3. Teaching your kids despite your limits... She is a super picky eater, and she really didn't want that for her kid bc it's limiting. I can already see her daughter eats so many more foods than she does. Not exactly sure how you accomplish this, and I'm not a picky eater but in general I like the idea that your kids don't necessarily learn your bad habits/ less desirable traits.
4. Calm attitude, a bit of crying isn't gonna kill your kid, etc. I hope I already exude this one.

Whose parenting style do you admire?