Michelle Obama gives brilliant advice on parenting

She brought that brilliance to a panel talk with Oprah during the latter’s Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life In Focus tour, where she spoke about everything, according to People.

She also shared great parenting advice in the form of advice that she gives her daughters and we think its a must-read. She said:

“What I tell them is what I continue to tell themselves is that they have to walk their own walk. They cannot define themselves by looking at each other or looking at me or their dad.

“They have to take the time to get to know themselves — give themselves a moment to figure out who they want to be in the world, not who they think I want them to be, not what the rest of the world says about them, but to really think about how they want to shape their lives and how they want to move in this world.

“So, I don’t want them measuring themselves by external influences, and for young girls that is hard to do.”

She also shared that she doesn’t follow her girls on social media, preferring for them to be followed by people who are younger than she is.

She revealed that she’s giving them their freedom now that they’re in college and allowing them to make their own decisions.

She also spoke about parenting while married. She said: “Parenting takes up a lot of emotional space. Raising a family together is a hard thing. It takes a toll. But if you’re with the person, if you know why you are with them. You understand that there was a friendship and a foundation there.

“You can have chunks of hard bad times and if that’s how you define your marriage by just the hard times, then you’ll miss the truth of what’s really there.”

And of course, she dished about her husband, Barack Obama too, saying: “We bawl like babies.

“When the emotions come is when we are getting in our cars and getting on a plane and leaving our babies. They’re going somewhere where they now live. That’s when it hits you. It’s like we all start choking up.”

Watch the interview below: