Proms, ponies & the secret service: Growing up in the White House

The president-elect's youngest son Barron will not be moving to the White House when his dad takes over as US President next January.

Instead, he will stay in New York with his mum Melania until he finishes the school term next year.

Even then, his parents still haven't decided whether the 10-year-old should move to the White House or stay put.

As the son of a celebrity TV star and loud-mouthed billionaire, Barron Trump is no stranger to publicity.

He was just 10 months old when he made his first big public appearance in 2007 when his dad was being awarded a Hollywood Star of Fame.

Donald Trump receives his Hollywood star of fame in 2007 with his son Barron

But the media speculation steps up a gear when your parents are the President and First Lady of the United States, as Alice Roosevelt, the wild-child daughter of Theodore (or Teddy), found out.

She was 17 when her father became president in 1901 and became a hit with the media at the time, who later named her "Princess Alice".

A glamorous party girl at heart, at a time when women were supposed to be more reserved, she was seen smoking on the White House roof, firing a gun from a moving train and jumping into a swimming pool, fully clothed. The scandal.

As for her brother Quentin, he will forever go down in history as the kid who took the family pony through the White House and up to his brother Archie's room to cheer him up from a bout of measles.

Social media and the White House kids

The Obama family in 2004, waiting for the election results

Fast forward 100 years, and things have changed for the first children.

The Obama kids had strict bans on social media when they were younger, enforced by their mum.

"I still am not a big believer in Facebook for young people…particularly for them, because they're in the public eye," Michelle Obama told People Magazine in 2013.

"Some of it's stuff they don't need to see and be a part of…So we try to protect them from too much of the public voice."

Sorry Michelle, but it's nearly impossible to control what gets out: the band Pro Era managed to get hold of a photo of what they said was a selfie of Malia Obama wearing a T-shirt of their band, and delightedly posted it on Instagram.

Malia Obama rocking that classic Pro Era tee!

Aged 18, Malia also caused a stir after a trip to Lollapalooza festival where she was photographed with what looked like a cannabis joint and dancing.

The perks of being a First Child

But the eldest Obama child hasn't had it all bad: when she turned 16, she was taught how to drive by the family's Secret Service agents and we're guessing they taught her some tricks of the trade along the way.

As an aspiring filmmaker (according to the New Yorker), Malia also managed to get a placement as an intern on the set of Lena Dunham's hit show Girls and on Halle Berry sci-fi drama, Extant.

Chelsea Clinton rocking some tie-dye in 1992, weeks before moving to the White House with her parents

When Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the White House, from 1992, they had a unique way of helping their daughter Chelsea cope with seeing her parents being bashed in the media: they would take it in turns to attack each other verbally over dinner.

Mrs Clinton wrote in her book: "As we continued the exercise over a few dinners, she gradually gained mastery over her emotions and some insight into the situations that might arise."

Aside from the roastings, Chelsea Clinton, now 36, said her parents tried to make things as normal as possible for her. As a teenager, she had trips to Planet Hollywood with friends, went to sleepovers and even had friends to stay at the President's quarters, which is made up of eight to 15 rooms of the White House.

"I was always deeply aware that I was living in history," she told the Huffington Post in 2014. "But then I would have dinner with my parents at the kitchen table every night. There was much about my life that also was normal."

That perm... Chelsea Clinton and her cat Socks, her dad, Bill, and other guests watch the Super Bowl in 1993

The media can be mean....

When she was a 12-year-old, Chelsea was dissed on Saturday Night Live, by comedian Mike Myers who poked fun at her looks.

The incident even prompted Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of former President Harry Truman, to write a complaint to the New York Times, saying that she empathised with Clinton and complained about being "hauled off to Washington" aged 11.

Amy Carter is another First Child (of President Jimmy Carter) who came under a lot of criticism for refusing to play by the rules.

An introverted kid by all accounts, she had some unfortunately massive glasses from an early age, and preferred to have her nose in a book than make polite chit chat - even during state dinners.

A tree-house built for her in the back yard gave her somewhere to escape to at least.

Amy Carter looking delighted at all the attention, holding hands with her parents, President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn in 1977

Escape from the White House

Barron Trump is still young for teenage rebellion. But if he was looking for a role model, he should turn to Susan Ford, daughter of US President Gerald Ford.

She started living in the White House during her final teenage years, during the 1970s, and at one stage managed to escape her Secret Service minders.

After speeding out of the White House, she picked up a friend and went to a few bars, before getting cold feet and giving her parents a call.

"I kept thinking 'I want to be normal. But I can't be normal,'" she told the San Fransciso paper SFGate.

"Everyone was watching. It was like living out loud."

Susan Ford with her father, US President Gerald Ford, in Washington in 1974

Despite the media criticising her clothes and her boyfriends, she did manage to host her class prom at the White House in 1975, complete with a sunset cruise on a presidential yacht.

So chin up Barron. Life in the White House ain't all bad.

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