Michelle and Barack Obama recall heartbreaking parenting moment – ‘It’s part of the deal’

Despite their success, both Michelle and her husband agree that they have honed their leadership skills from parenting their daughters. Former US President Barack recently spoke about what he learned from parenting his daughters Malia and Sasha.

He said raising children is like nurturing plants because each one is slightly different.

He said: “They’re a bamboo or they’re an oak or they’re a chestnut.

“They all need water, sunlight, some TLC, but how they grow and what place, when the branches sprout, when they flower at any given time, it’s just different.

“And so, our daughters are very different, and as they got older, they became identifiable.”

Barack said his oldest daughter Malia has a temperament like him, while their youngest daughter Sasha is more like their mother, Michelle.

Barack also shared some parenting tips during an event in San Francisco.

He said: “In parenting, the idea that you do the exact same thing with each child the same way actually doesn’t make sense.

“There has to be equity and fairness in terms of wanting them to get to the same outcomes, but we had to take sort of different strategies with our girls on certain things.”

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“That’s part of that process of development.”

In a recent interview with Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, Michelle also shared how difficult it is to not control your child’s life completely.

She said: “Bruised knees, bumpy roads and broken hearts are part of the deal.”

Michelle also said how her daughters could not be more different from one another.

She continued: “In some ways, Malia and Sasha couldn’t be more different.

“One speaks freely and often, one opens up on her own terms.

“One shares her innermost feelings, the other is content to let you figure it out.

“Neither approach is better or worse, because they’ve both grown into smart, compassionate and independent young women, fully capable of paving their own paths.”

Before becoming First Lady, Michelle attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

She had a career as an attorney at a Chicago Law firm called Sidley & Austin, where he also met her husband Barack Obama.

source: express.co.uk