Michelle Obama shares why she was not friends with her children

Former first lady Michelle Obama She said she was not a friend of her children in a new conversation about Podcast with Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles, claiming that too many parents were trying to make friends with her children.

“My children say it’s a phrase that they hate to say,” I’m not one of your little friends, “Obama said during the episode of his Podcasta, Imam with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, announced on Friday.

“And so many people are trying to be friends of their children and they think it makes you closer,” Obama said. “But let me tell you, I was not a friend of my children. I love them deeply. It was respectful. And, you know, for those of you who are trying to be friends with their children, our children love us as much as adults. In fact, relationships, I mean, it’s even closer, because now they deserve my friendship. Now, maybe, we can be friends.

Michelle and Barack Obama have two daughters, Malia and Sasha, who were only 10 and 7 years old, when they entered the White House in 2008.

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In the second may episode of her podcast, said the former first lady She grew up gratefulBut these children are much less today.

“When I think about what our parents have done or not, and maybe it’s a little different because we’re a brother-season, because that same gender dynamics can make it a little difficult,” Obama said in earlier episode his subcasta, who hosts with his brother.

“But I know we got along for some of the same reasons,” Obama said. “Our parents worked hard enough without fighting and provoking devastation. We knew our parents were doing what hard. We knew they were giving us as much as they could. I guess we got grateful.”

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She added that children should appreciate more today.

“Maybe sometimes in this generation, where children have too many, parents give children a lot of things and don’t give them some guidelines,” Obama said.

During the episode on Friday, Obama asked Beyoncé’s mother For advice on how to raise more children.

“I think, you know, one of the things, just what someone asked me, what is the best advice I can give them, always that if you have more than one child, see that child who is, try to discover what, you know, what makes their clock or anything. What excites them?

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