Michelle Obamasays she and former PresidentBarack Obamahave been happily getting an earful from daughtersSashaandMalia.Speaking withGood Morning America’sRobin Robertson Wednesday, the former first lady shared her thoughts on future generations of young Americans, whom she has often described in inspiring terms — starting with her own kids.“If you sit around the dinner table, me and Barack, we can’t get a word in edgewise and we like it like that,” said Mrs. Obama, 57. “We want to hear their thoughts and their opinions, and that’s where it begins.““I always have wanted them to start practicing the power of their voices very early on” and that “what I hope they learn is that who they are right now is enough,” she said of her girls.
In a Mother’s Day essay for PEOPLE in 2019, Mrs. Obama reflected on her own mother’s parenting and the lessons she wanted to impart as a mom herself.
From left: Malia, Barack, Michelle and Sasha Obama at the White House.Pete Souza/The White House via Getty
In an interview in November, President Obama told PEOPLE he “could not have been prouder” of Sasha, 19, and Malia, 22, who hadparticipated in protestsagainst racial injustice and police brutality last summer.Noting the young organizers who led the demonstrations following the killing ofGeorge Floyd, the former first lady toldGMAon Wednesday that what gives her “even more hope is what happened at the polls in November,” referring to the election.“We gotta march, we gotta protest and we have to vote,” she said. “We have to be educated and we have to be informed. Young people are starting to put those pieces together and understand that it’s not either-or — it’s all of it.”
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source: people.com
