Rumors have been swirling for months that Barack and Michelle Obama are heading for divorce. According to these rumors, Barack and Michelle have been living “separate lives” for quite some time.
Now, Michelle is speaking out to offer some surprising parenting advice as these divorce rumors continue to spread.
Michelle’s Parenting Advice
On Wednesday’s episode of her IMO podcast, which she launched with her older brother Craig Robinson back in March, Michelle sat down with psychologist Jonathan Haidt. During their conversation, Michelle offered some parenting advice after raising daughters Malia, 26, and Sasha, 24.
According to Michelle, parents need to be tough on their children when it comes to their social media usage.
“Parents suffer from this dopamine thing too when it comes to parenting. Because we want instant reward response from our children,” said Michelle, 61. “We don’t want to wait. We don’t want to do the longer-haul thing. You know, a lot of times we have to ask ourselves, ‘Are we doing this for our kids, or are we doing this for us?’ Because we have the screen too.”
“And we’re being trained on that instant gratification,” she continued. “Maybe the 90-minute story is a problem for us, because we can’t sit still. The bottom line is that we’ve got to get tougher. We’ve got to get more resilient for our kids. Because I know time and time again that a lot of parents do what’s easy for them, you know, and not necessarily what’s best for the kid.”
Michelle’s Warning To Parents
Michelle went on to warn parents that there will be “parental pain” that comes with this tough-love strategy.
“We have to become a little more resilient as parents,” she explained. “We have to become tougher for the sake of our kids… It’s not fun. All of it is going to be really, really hard, physically, emotionally, one of the toughest things you do.”
“You will be disappointing them, and scaring them and making them hurt and arguing with them and doing all the things that you don’t want to do with your best friends. But in the end, as parents, we are responsible for securing the safety and the health of the children we bring into this world. And that means, once we know that something isn’t good for them… we’ve got to do the hard thing, we’ve got to take the substance from the addict,” she added. “And it’s not going to be fun.”
Michelle concluded by saying that parents shouldn’t try to be “friends” with their children.
Obama Divorce Rumors
This comes after months of rumors that the Obamas are heading for divorce. These rumors escalated in a big way back in January, when Michelle skipped both the funeral of Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of Donald Trump. She was the only living former First Lady to miss each of these events. This forced Barack to attend both events alone.
“I have been hearing this rumor that the Obamas are getting a divorce by reputable people,” political commentator Meghan McCain said on reporter Tara Palmeri’s podcast back in January. “I’m not talking about TMZ, I’m not talking about Perez Hilton, although I love him, he’s my friend.”
“I’m talking about like very serious journalists telling me that they’re hearing that the Obama divorce rumors are true,” she continued.
“We’ve heard that for a long time,” replied Tara, who has long covered Washington politics. “Like I just heard that they live separate lives.”
Listen to Meghan and Tara talk more about this in the clip below.
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Michelle Accused Of ‘Really Disliking’ Barack
Since launching her IMO podcast earlier this year, Michelle has used it to seemingly bash Barack and air his dirty laundry seemingly every chance she gets.
In fact, Michelle has complained about Barack so many times on her podcast that the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently claimed that the former First Lady “really dislikes her husband, and it’s super obvious.”
“I’m not just saying that to be catty,” Tucker explained. “I think I’m trying to feel compassion for her but her hostility toward the guy is unbelievable.”
Tucker’s fellow Fox News host Megyn Kelly was quick to agree. She pointed out that “everything Michelle says about her husband is negative.”
“I almost never say negative things about Doug,” Megyn added, referring to her husband Doug Brunt. “He’s not perfect but when I think about him, I don’t immediately go to whatever is negative. I go to what’s positive and what I love about him.”
Watch Tucker and Megyn talk more about this in the video below.
Barack has yet to ever comment publicly on the divorce rumors. Some might say that his silence has been deafening.
Meanwhile, Michelle has tried to shoot them down a few times. However, many aren’t buying her denials, given how much she’s continued to slam Barack on her podcast.
Michelle can hand out parenting advice all that she wants to, but it won’t distract people from questioning the state of her marriage. Only time will tell if the Obama marriage will actually survive!
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