Here's to you, first granny Marian Robinson

Published: May 6, 2013 Updated: May 11, 2013 11:10 a.m.





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By THERESA WALKER / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER


Her titles are unofficial: First Granny. First Nanny. First Grandma-in-Chief.

Her duties are familial: Live with and help take care of two of her five grandchildren.

Marian Robinson, far right, has remained a steady presence in the lives of Sasha, center, and Malia Obama as they grow up in the White House. Here they look on following President Barack Obama's public ceremonial inauguration Jan. 21, 2013.
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Household rules

Michelle Obama joked in a New York Times article from 2009 about how her mother, Marian Robinson, seems to have forgotten how strict she was at the dinner table.

"My mother, who is now a grandmother – and that's a whole 'nother person – seems to believe that she never, ever really made us eat anything that we didn't want to eat," she told the Times.

Here's a look at some of the Obama household rules compiled by the Times and mentioned in interviews:

• The girls write reports on the trips they take, whether or not it is a school requirement.
• During the week, no watching TV or using the computer except for schoolwork.
• They have to take up two sports, one of their choosing and the other picked by their mother. And they have to see it through, whether they are successful or not. No quitting.
• Vegetables must be eaten, no matter what grandma's new mind-set is.

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