Barack Obama said he was forced to stop coaching his daughter Sasha’s basketball team because parents complained.
When you are forever president like Barack Obama, getting attention is inevitable. In the first volume of his memoir “A Promised Land,” which will be published by The Sunday Times, Obama recalls the time he and his personal aide, Reggie Love, coached Sasha’s fourth-grade basketball team. “After observing an adorable but chaotic first couple of games, Reggie and I took it upon ourselves to draw up some plays and volunteered to conduct a few informal Sunday afternoon practice sessions with the team,” he writes.
While he was just being a good Dad by helping out his daughter’s team, he explains that the support wasn’t necessarily reciprocated from some of the teammates’ parents or the league. “They must think being coached by you is something they can put on their Harvard application,” he says Love said to him in a joking manner after they decided to step down, BuzzFeed reports. From that point on, Obama says he and his forever First Lady Michelle Obama supported from the stands.
Obama added that he is happy that he’s been able to catch up on “dad stuff.” “Every parent savors such moments…when the world slows down, your strivings get pushed to the back of your mind, and all that matters is that you are present, fully, to witness the miracle of your child growing up.” He continued: “Given all the time I’d missed with the girls over years of campaigning and legislative sessions, I cherished the normal ‘dad stuff’ that much more.”
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