At the end of an item in today's New York Times about the various choices for Presidential dog, there was this cute little family-oriented tidbit:
One family matter that appears to be going well is the Obama girls’ transition to their new school, Sidwell Friends.
“They seemed to thrive,” Mr. Obama said in the interview of their first week at the private school. “I’m trying to figure out why it is that they don’t seem to be fazed by anything.
“People think — you know, folks think I’m cool. They are a lot cooler than I am. They just don’t seem to be intimidated.”
In his case I think the President-elect was using the word cool in a fairly literal way – as in cucumber, cool as a, rather than James Dean cool. (Or even he-likes-comic-books cool.) I know I keep coming back to this idea, but I’m still surprised at how often I feel a connection to Barack Obama as a dad. I can't say that about most famous folks, much less a politician.
Do you think your kids adjust to change better than you do? Are they "cooler"?
Source: NYTimes
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