Always full of healthy family advice, First Lady Michelle Obama talks family traditions, her own choices for healthy eating, and what she believes to be the biggest challenges facing parents today in the latest issue of Parenting.
She stresses the importance of physical activity in the form of team sports. In fact, her and President Barack Obama set the expectation that sports are as important as homework and friends. She reveals:
“It’s important to learn how to compete, to develop a skill…[how to lose]…and how to work as a team. I want them to learn how to sweat, how to win gracefully and lose with dignity. I want them to learn what it feels like to get better at something that you didn’t think you were good at.”
The mother-in-chief also reveals what she believes to be the biggest challenge facing parents today: Teaching kids the need for service in an increasingly “dehumanized world.”
“Barack and I always tell our girls that you can be smart, you can be beautiful, but if you don’t know how to treat people, if you don’t walk into a room and say hello, if you don’t say thank you, if you’re not looking out for the girl who’s sitting alone by herself…then who are you?”
Valuable advice for children and adults alike!
Photo Courtesy Lee Clower, Parenting
