Michelle Obama

I think I'm keeping count.

That was three.

Renee.

Isn't it fun watching them become people?

Right before your very eyes.

And scary.

Oh, my God, the most terrifying thing.

So I tell people, it makes sense not to have kids.

Absolute, complete emotional sense.

Don't do it.

I think, you know.

I'm getting that a lot.

I am so foolish.

I believe all this stuff.

It's a shame.

But it's also a reminder of why we have to train them up and move out of the way.

I mean, it's the organic parenting piece of it.

We've got to trust parents.

that they have to find the courage now to figure it out it's not our courage anymore you know we we can't supplant our courage for theirs and these times are going to be is that's going to play itself out i mean we're moving into something that we don't understand um we you know we don't know ai we're not we can't figure it out and it may seem scary now but we have to have faith

that they will figure this out and be able to tap into the values that we've instilled in them in communities like this, that they'll remember humility and boundaries and love and trust and all of that, that compassion has to go into whatever the solution is.