{"id":149,"date":"2020-09-17T21:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=177562"},"modified":"2020-10-11T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T15:38:54","slug":"michelle-obama-on-raising-children-in-white-house","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/michelle-obama-on-raising-children-in-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopt Me, Michelle Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-177563 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/barack-and-michelle-1579271800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"691\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They say you don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve got until it\u2019s gone, or, in the Obama\u2019s case, until it\u2019s replaced with one of the worst people in modern history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we all pine for the years when Barack Obama was President of the United States and his wife, Michelle, was First Lady, the couple is thankfully blessing us with their presence in more ways than one. In fact, just today Barack announced that he&#8217;s written a book on his presidency, <em>The Promised Land<\/em>, which is set to be released November 17th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plus, over lockdown, Michelle released her new podcast, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Michelle Obama Podcast<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, opting to pull strings and have her hubby on as her first guest. During the conversation, the couple talked about their respective upbringings and the work they did prior to getting into politics, as well as speaking about the upcoming election and how it seems we\u2019ve all lost a sense of community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the just-released season finale of her show, Michelle spoke candidly with her mother, Marian Robinson, and older brother, Craig, about the parenting lessons they learned while growing up in Chicago and how she tried to give her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, a sense of normality in the White House.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CDd_BMrA0hW\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:500px; min-width:326px; padding:0; 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Here&#39;s to all the good days, blue skies, and new adventures to come. \ud83d\ude18<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/michelleobama\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\"> Michelle Obama<\/a> (@michelleobama) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2020-08-04T13:08:18+00:00\">Aug 4, 2020 at 6:08am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOne of the things that I had to learn how to negotiate was creating these boundaries with my kids in the White House,\u201d Michelle told her family. \u201cI mean, you talk about being raised in a totally different world than I ever knew? It&#8217;s like, pluckin&#8217; these little girls out of our normal life on the South Side of Chicago with Craig, and mom, and our way of doing things, and our community, and then, putting them in a historic mansion with butlers and maids, and florists, and gardeners, and Secret service, and then trying to make sure that they understood boundaries, understood responsibility.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking about her husband\u2019s busy role as POTUS, Michelle said she made an effort not to begrudge the busy schedule or the time Barack was away from the family. &#8220;I always tried to make sure that I wasn&#8217;t pouting in front of the kids when Barack wasn&#8217;t there,&#8221; she explained, adding, \u201cIf I had made a big deal out of it and said, \u2018Oh my god, your dad&#8217;s not here again! Oh, he&#8217;s missing this\u2019 or \u2018I just wish\u2026\u2019 then that&#8217;s the signal to them, \u2018Well this isn&#8217;t normal\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEven as Barack being the president of the United States, he worked his schedule around their schedule. They weren&#8217;t waiting until 9 o&#8217;clock at night to eat because dad was running late,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;They never couldn&#8217;t not go somewhere or do something because of dad. I never wanted them to resent the presidency, or resent what their dad did.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michelle has previously said that despite the family having maids and servers to wait on them hand and foot, Malia and Sasha had to make their own beds while living in the White House. 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