Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States, recently debuted her new podcast, Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast which, according to her, “is a deeper examination of those significant moments” that she encountered during her writing of the light we carry and the book tour that followed. During the podcast, the 59 year old opened up about the importance of offering children our “joys”, instead of trying to fix them.
Highlighting his participation in the book tour in Philadelphiawhere she sat with her friend Hoda Kotb, the co-host of the Today program, said: “What Toni Morrison says is that our children just want our joy. They don’t need us to fix them. They don’t need us to first point out what’s wrong and I write about it because it’s a practice. I know that I try to practice that with the children in the world.”
He added that there are many children that you can live your whole life and not be greeted with joy. “I just think, man, if this interaction is their chance to be seen by someone and someone they think is important, I’m not going to waste it,” Michelle said, adding that for most of their lives, kids see grown ups. as role models, something many parents tend to forget.
“Sometimes you attack them as if they were adults: you throw them out of your store, you treat them as if they do not belong to a museumThey are nuisances. And as adults, showing them what marks them, ”she explained.
He went on to say that he is now “on the other side of parenthood.” She remembered her daughter walking into her hotel room in wrinkled clothes. clothes. “She walks in, maybe the second time I saw her this morning, and I was like ‘you’re wrinkled, you’re going to do something about it’ and she’s like ‘yeah mom.’ And then I thought, ‘I did it. I greeted her with, instead of what I was feeling, which is, ‘sit on my lap, give me a kiss’, I’m making things right. I’m pointing out, ‘Oh my God, your hair isn’t here,’” Michelle said.
This is not the first time she has spoken openly about motherhood and paternity. Prior to this, she had shared her experiences with her mother’s guilt in her book. “One little thing would go wrong, and my mother’s guilt would kick in. She would start to doubt every choice. barack and I had ever done. Self-scrutiny is something women are programmed to excel at, having been pushed into systems of inequality and fed completely unrealistic images of feminine ‘perfection’ from when we were children. None of us, really none, ever measure up,” she wrote, adding that for mothers, feelings of “not enough” can be especially acute.
He added: “The images of maternal perfection we find in ads and on social media are often no less fake than what we see in the enhanced and photoshopped female bodies that are often championed as the social gold standard for the beauty. But still, we’re conditioned to buy it, looking for not just the perfect body, but also perfect children, perfect work-life balance, perfect family experiences, and perfect levels of patience. It’s hard not to look around you as a mom and think, Is everyone doing perfectly but me?
Michelle Obama shares two daughters, Malia and Sasha, with Barack Obamathe former president of the USA
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