Seven-year-old Ava Childers will soon be responsible for making her own bed every day.
And she can thank the Obamas for that.
Ava’s mother, Danita, got the idea after hearing that the soon-to-be first daughters, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, are required to make their own beds in the morning.
“I hadn’t given her any chores . . . and I just mentioned it to my husband,” said Danita Childers, recalling their recent parenting discussion. “Maybe she’s old enough to do something like that.”
Like others across the country who are looking to the Obamas as parental role models, the Childers family of the South Side is eating up stories about the Obama family’s values—from the girls’ 8 p.m. bedtime to the president-elect’s “Harry Potter” reading nights to the task of selecting a pet dog.
