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* In ''[[Recess]]'', Miss Grotke is one to the entire foruth grade class (to the point where Spinelli looks up to her like a mom than her own mother), while Gretchen is one to the main six.

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', this function is typically performed by Applejack, although other characters may fill the role depending on circumstances.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Captain's Wives sometimes did this for nineteenth-century sailing ships.

** Mary Ann Patten navigated the clipper Neptune's Car around Cape Horn while being [[The Caretaker]] to her sick husband and being [[Pregnant Badass|pregnant]] to boot. They talk simplistically, though not without justification, about the rigidity of nineteenth-century customs. But New England sea princesses could be awesome when put to it and they don't make em like that anymore.

** Hell toward the end she was getting to be the Team Mom to the whole of ''Europe''. She was actually known as "the grandmother of Europe" because of how big her family was. World War I reads like the world's biggest, nastiest family spat.

* Gina Dalfonzo is the moderator at [https://web.archive.org/web/20131122165326/http://thepoint.breakpoint.org/tp-home this site] and she is almost a classic Team Mom.