Jenna Bush Hager admitted that it’s easier for her parents, George W. and Laura Bush, to watch her twin niece Barbara Bush than it is for her three children because the one-year-old “isn’t really moving.”
The Today host, 41, opened up about his grandparenting style View on Monday while addressing viewers’ social dilemmas with country star Reba McEntire, filling in for Hoda Kotb.
My daughter is mad at me because she says I watch her sister’s children more than her own. The truth is, her sister’s children behave much better. How do I tell her without hurting her feelings? Read one question.
The predicament struck a chord with Bush Hager, who jokingly asked, “Is this from my father? Did my parents provide this?”
Jenna Bush Hager, 41, admitted on the Today show Monday that it’s easier for her parents to watch her 1-year-old niece Barbara than it is for her three children.
“Did my parents make this?” Bush jokingly asked Hager while reading a question from a viewer how he preferred watching one girl’s children over the others
The mom-to-be shares three children — Mila, ten, Bobby, seven, and Hal, three — with husband Henry Hager, and she knows they can handle a lot with her parents.
The mom shares three children — Mila, ten, Bobby, seven, and Hal, three — with her husband, Henry Hager, and knows they can handle a lot more with her parents now that they’re in their mid-70s.
“Sometimes it’s complicated with siblings because I think you think, ‘Oh my God, do you prefer the other?'” Does the mother care more about the other? She explained that when it is also likely that only children’s ages.
My sister has one baby who doesn’t really move, you know? “It’s not necessarily personal,” she said of her niece, Cora Georgia, who was born in September 2021.
MacIntyre felt that the grandmother writing in needed to take over the discipline of the children if they did not respect her home or surroundings.
“Is that what happens with ya will?” she asked her co-host.
Bush Hager laughed and quickly replied, “No.”
Bush Hager noted that her parents, George W. and Laura Bush, love pampering their children when they visit
My sister has one baby who doesn’t really move, you know? Bush said Hager of her niece, Cora Georgia, who was born in September 2021.
The Bush twins were photographed with their children last Christmas
“My parents do the opposite, sort of separating the schedules,” she said. They’re like, “Oh, sure, (you want) our iPad? You can have an iPad all morning. And you want ice cream for breakfast? Sure.”
“And then we have to kind of push them back, retrain,” she added. “Because I think they think the job of grandparents is just to be as fun as possible.”
The former president and first lady may pamper their grandchildren, but they’ve been much more rigorous about raising their daughters.
Bush Hager opened up about her upbringing on the Today show last year, saying her parents were “strict about a lot of things.”
However, she notes that they have a “hands up” approach when it comes to playing outsides that she likes.
“They were a let him work in that we had the freedom, which I appreciated,” she said. ‘I want to be.’ I want free range kids. You know, brutal, brutal. I want children alone.
