Michelle Obama Urges Parents Not To Try To Be Friends With Their Children

Former First Lady Michelle Obama said she was not her children's friend successful a caller podcast speech with Beyoncé's mom, Tina Knowles, arguing excessively galore parents effort to befriend their kids.

"My kids opportunity that this is nan building they dislike for maine to say: ‘I’m not 1 of your small friends,’" Obama said during a unrecorded section of her podcast, IMO pinch Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson, posted Friday. 

"And truthful galore group are trying to beryllium their kids’ friends, and they deliberation that that makes you closer," Obama said. "But fto maine show you, I was not my children's friend. I emotion them deeply. There was respect. And, you know, for those of you trying to beryllium friends pinch your kids, our kids emotion america conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic adults. In fact, nan relationship, I think, is moreover person because now they’ve earned my friendship. Now we tin beryllium friends. Now, possibly you cognize something."

Michelle and Barack Obama person 2 daughters, Malia and Sasha, who were conscionable 10 and 7 years old, respectively, erstwhile they entered nan White House successful 2008.

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Malia Obama, Sasha Obama, Marian Robinson, then-First Lady Michelle Obama and then-President Barack Obama successful 2015. (Photo by Olivier Douliery- Pool/Getty Images) (Olivier Douliery- Pool/Getty Images)

In different May section of her podcast, nan erstwhile first woman said she grew up thankful, but that kids coming are importantly little so. 

"When I deliberation astir what our parents did aliases didn't do, and possibly it's a small spot different because we're brother-sister, because that aforesaid gender move whitethorn make it a small spot hard," Obama said successful an earlier episode of her podcast, which she co-hosts pinch her brother. 

"But I cognize we sewage on for immoderate of nan aforesaid reasons," Obama said. "Our parents worked difficult capable without america fighting and causing havoc. We knew our parents were moving arsenic difficult arsenic they could. We knew that they were giving america arsenic overmuch arsenic they could. I conjecture we grew up grateful." 

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Michelle Obama says that kids coming should beryllium much appreciative of what they have. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)  (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

She added that kids coming should beryllium much appreciative of what they have. 

"Perhaps sometimes successful this generation, wherever kids have, I think, excessively much, parents are giving kids a batch of stuff, and they're not giving them immoderate guidance," Obama said.

During Friday’s episode, Obama asked Beyoncé's mother for proposal connected really to raise aggregate children.

"I think, you know, 1 of nan things is, is conscionable that erstwhile personification asked me, what's nan champion proposal I tin springiness to them, it is ever that if you person much than 1 child, to spot that kid for who they are, to effort to find retired what, you know, what makes their timepiece tick aliases whatever. What excites them? What are their champion qualities? And not compare," Knowles said. 

Beyoncé, her mother, Tina Knowles, and Jay-Z. (Getty Images)

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