Michelle Obama Says She Stopped Spanking Her Daughters Malia & Sasha Obama Because It Made Her Feel ‘Embarrassed’

Michelle Obama Says She Stopped Spanking Her Daughters Malia & Sasha Obama Because It Made Her Feel ‘Embarrassed’

Michelle Obama is getting real about her parenting style and why she ditched spanking when Malia and Sasha were little.

On the latest episode of her IMO Podcast with her brother Craig Robinson, Michelle opened up during a convo with Damon Wayans and Marlon Wayans, revealing she used to spank her daughters… but quickly realized it wasn’t effective. She said,

“It took a couple of spankings for me to be like, yeah, you know what? I felt like, you know, this is a little kid and the fact that I can’t think of any better way to get my point across than to smack somebody on the butt… I felt embarrassed.”

 

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“I felt silly,” she added. “It just wasn’t who I wanted to be as a parent.”

Michelle still considers herself a tough-love mom who lets her kids make mistakes and learn from them:

“I want to be a proponent for reinstating some of the stuff that we had. You know, parents are too afraid to set those kinds of boundaries. And I think that’s also part of the challenge that we’re facing in this generation.”

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