Michelle Obama

She was the middle of seven.

But my mom was so

emotionally intelligent and she had such great common sense, just like your mind.

Wouldn't have to say much, but everybody wanted to hear from her.

And one of the things that I learned from her was that, you know, you just don't have kids.

You have to understand that you're raising people.

And so her approach to raising us was to talk to us

like who she wanted us to be later on, you know?

She didn't treat us like babies.

She loved us dearly.

But she believed that all kids are born with a level of intelligence and ability, and she treated us that way.

So she taught me, like, as I grew up, I was like, my mom had this really deep philosophy about parenting.

You know, stuff you learn in sociology and psychology classes just came naturally to her.

So I kind of think about parenting as this huge responsibility to think about where am I trying to get my girls, not how I feel in the moment.

So I always wonder what folks' parenting philosophies are.

And do you think you have one?

And how would you describe your mothering approach?

So like me, you have two girls.

Yes.

I wanted to copy you.