Jenna Bush Hager has spotted a trend with 4-year-old son Hal’s book-reading routines.
“You know how he gaslights me all the time?” Bush Hager, 42, requested cohost Hoda Kotb right through the Friday, December 22, broadcast of Lately With Hoda and Jenna. “You know how my favorite book is about a mother loving their son? Last night he said, ‘Daddy’s gonna read this book.’”
Bush Hager — who stocks Hal and daughters Mila, 10, and Poppy, 7, with husband Henry Hager — used to be puzzled via her son reducing her out of tale time.
“He’s like, ‘No this is my special book with Daddy,’” Bush Hager added whilst Kotb, 59, burst out guffawing. “Now, guess what, Hal? Two can play that game, little buddy. … And then I hear Henry [reading], ‘Mommy says to baby giraffe, I love you so.’ And I’m, like, [annoyed].”
She persisted: “But here’s the deal. You know, he gaslights me. Guess what? ‘We’ll see’ is my way to get back at you, little buddy.”
Previous within the Lately phase, Bush Hager and Kotb had been discussing how mothers ceaselessly use the time period “we’ll see” on every occasion their youngsters ask for a brand new request.
“‘We’ll see’ is an absolute no,” Bush Hager identified. “Let’s just translate for the kids watching with their parents: ‘We’ll see’ means never, no. ‘Can we have a cookie?’ We’ll see, Hal.”
Bush Hager additionally added that a mother answering with a “maybe” is a extra favorable consequence. “If you get a ‘maybe,’ things are looking up,” she mentioned. “A ‘maybe’ is a half-and-half and a ‘maybe’ is really just a maybe.”
Bush Hager ceaselessly chats about motherhood right through Lately publicizes, together with a contemporary confession that Mila, Poppy and Hal continuously name her “Jenna” as a substitute of “Mom.”
“I take it as a compliment because it is my name,” she joked right through a November episode of Lately.
Bush Hager’s cohost, Kotb, continuously can relate to her parenting confessions as a mom of 2 herself. (Kotb stocks daughters Haley, 6, and Hope, 4, with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman.)
“With Jenna, I learned not to sweat the small stuff,” Kotb completely instructed Us Weekly in Might 2019 of Bush Hager’s highest parenting guidelines. “She’s like, ‘Don’t freak out, you’re not a bad mother because you forgot to do this or you didn’t do that.’ I think she kind of reminds you we’re all a little flawed. Don’t sweat it, don’t try to get it all right because you’re not going to get it right.”