To maintain consistency and normalcy for their daughters,Michelle and Barack Obamawere intentional about enforcing specific rules.

“It was like, if they’re gonna be normal, we have to be normal parents.

Thebest-selling author(viaPublisher’s Weekly) also mentionedher own childhood and upbringinginfluenced her parenting style.

Michelle Obama NAACP Image Awards

And, all that, their success is each other’s success, that’s all you have.

That sibling relationship is special,” (viaHappy Scribe).

“What I tell them is … that they have to walk their own walk.

The Obamas family portrait outside