Had an interesting chat with DS (6) today. We were talking about some of his friends and their Mums and DS commented that he liked X's Mum, because she was really 'cool'...
I couldn't quite extract a precise definition of 'cool' from him, but hypothesising a little I think the following might be possible criteria:
- quite fit/ sporty (i.e. willing to kick a football about etc)
- no-nonsense type approach
- wears trendy, but age-appropriate clothes
- presumably able to meaningfully converse about things that are important to 6 year old boys (e.g. "thought England played rather badly, and why did Sven take Owen off then?" or " did you manage to get all the golden rings to get to level 8 on your Gamebuy then?"
What do you reckon then? It's not really restricted to Mums of boys, it;s just that's the bit I'm most interested in, and I expect the criteria would be different. (Reminds me though that another friend of mine was told recently by her 6 year old DD that she was frumpy and would look much prettier if she bought some new clothes 
)