This is why 2 parent households are important for us as a people. Because so many of you don't understand the dynamics at play here and are taking unnecessary offense.
For a father, his children, especially his sons right or wrong, are his legacy. For that reason we are harder on them and place a different type of expectation on them than our daughters. And its gonna come out as more discipline, more responsibility, more regimen, more quality time on his interests.
But mothers are diff with their sons. I see it with my wife all the time. She wanna baby em. She wanna "aww just let him sleep in". A father is gonna say...Nah. Son, get up and come run these errands with me. Get up son you gotta get to the gym, off season is for WORK.
Now imagine that times 100x when you're Barack's son. shyt would have been pressure. Not just from the outside but from Barack. Think about it, Barack got 2 kids, 2 lil girls, but did any of us ever think about how they have to follow in his footsteps? Put that type of pressure on them? Nope. Literally never comes up. Cause it's not the same.
So imo Michelle is just doing what mothers/wives do, at least as far as what I'm reading. She seen all that drive Barack had and imagined him pouring it into a son and felt it'd be too much for him and wants to instinctively coddle him. But she doesn't understand bc she's not a man/father.
It's only mentally tough if you trying to do what your father did. Whose to say he would he be in politics when none of his kids leaned that way so far?
