First Holiday with the little one

My wife and I both love surfing. We got into it about three years ago, own our own boards and would head down to the coast at least twice a year. We would take long weekends and camp, surfing in the morning and afternoons and sit by the fire pit in the evening before bed. Lovely times. This however changed when we found out we were expecting a baby. Along with planning/saving for a wedding, we never managed to get to the waves last year, which sucked. We promised ourselves that once the little one was born we would head to the coast and get some surfing in. This was met with a few ‘just wait and see when she’s born’ and ‘you won’t have the time or the energy’ blah blah blah. Well we proved them wrong.

Good Female role models I want my daughter to be inspired by.

So my little bundle of joy is going to be a little girl, then a slightly bigger girl, then a teenage girl and finally an adult women. I have recently posted up rules for raising a girl a man’s way, however there are a few things that me and the other half want to surround our little girl with, and these are role models. Now we are very active people anyway, taking part in various activities such as weight training, mountain biking, climbing and surfing, so we plan on getting our little girl into various activities as soon as possible.

We are also not going to use the words ‘Diet’, ‘Skinny’ or ‘Fat’ in our house. We eat healthy, but we are not strict with our diet, having the occasional (more than occasional if honest) naughty treat. We love training, so it’s easy for us to motivate ourselves to exercise and doing physical activities. We will not be limiting our children, especially if they are both girls, to safe sports. If they want to do something like MMA, or an extreme sport then we are all for that, equally if they want to do something less dangerous, we will encourage them.

But what about the women who I want to inspire my daughter, the women me and my other half believe are good roles models, not just for my daughter, but for girls across the world. We see a lot of women in the media who are not good role models, those who act like hookers, treat their fame and fortune like it was a right and those who are just plan horrible people (we all know at least a handful of these celebrities that plaster our media with their presence). Here is a list of role models that we want our little girl to be inspired by, if you have any others or your own, let me know in the comments.