Jenna Bush Hager is gearing up for parenting through the teenage years.
Bush Hager, 43, turned emotional through the Wednesday, July 30, episode of At present With Jenna & Mates as she spoke concerning the Gracie Abrams live performance she attended together with her husband, Henry Chase Hager, and their three children the night time earlier than.
“We had been out in town,” she instructed cohost Tyra Banks, including that the present was “a lot enjoyable.” Nevertheless, Bush Hager admitted that she acquired misty-eyed through the live performance as a result of she was “going via one thing” together with her household.
“Clearly, my oldest goes into center faculty. For no matter motive, we sat down, and — take into consideration how embarrassing that is as a baby — and simply seeing how excited they had been for her, I began crying,” she defined. “I used to be like, that is so lovely, to see this live performance via their eyes!”
The TV host added that she realized this “could possibly be the final time” her eldest daughter, Mila, 12, who's in seventh grade, is “cool with sitting subsequent to her mother at a live performance.”
“In a number of years, she's going to be going with all of her buddies,” Bush Hager continued.
“And never Mommy,” Banks, 51, interjected, noticing that Bush Hager was “getting teary now” as they mirrored on the live performance.

“I simply was pondering, like, time goes so quick, and he or she'll sit subsequent to me and maintain my hand a bit,” Bush Hager added. “[My husband was] like, ‘Don't cry, she's humiliated!'”
Banks responded, “These are the moments. Experiences are so vital, since you're going to relive that time and again and over.”
The couple additionally share daughter Poppy, 9, and son Hal, 5. In the meantime, Banks shares son York, 9, with ex-boyfriend Erik Asla.
Again in April, Bush Hager revealed that she had the same realization about Mila rising up and eager to spend time with different folks whereas celebrating Halloween a number of years in the past.

“We'd at all times had Halloween with our household and household pals,” she defined on At present. “Mila, my daughter was like, ‘I wish to go trick-or-treating with different folks.' At first, I used to be like, ‘Wait — what? Like, how dare you.' I noticed: I'm not going to be in all my children' recollections … we must always make our children really feel assured to allow them to go and be their very own folks.”
In 2023, Bush Hager gushed about her position as a mother and stated it's an important job she has.
“It goes so quick,” she instructed the outlet of elevating her children. “So I need each second with them to be treasured. And I need them to really feel my presence not simply to suppose that ‘Mommy's dwelling and he or she's drained once more.'”
As for her type of parenting, Bush Hager and her twin sister, Barbara Bush, solely instructed Us Weekly in March that they had been each closely impressed by their mother and father, former President of america George W. Bush and former First Woman Laura Bush.
“I'd say it was type of, like, the laissez-faire parenting of the ‘80s and ‘90s,” Barbara, who shares 3-year-old daughter Cora Georgia and 11-month-old son Edward with husband Craig Coyne, stated. “Our mother and father had been very round, however we had lots of freedom when it comes to taking part in outdoors and exploring our neighborhood and simply form of being out and about in a, clearly, protected means. But it surely was earlier than cell telephones and earlier than the fixed connection and communication that all of us have now.”
She added, “The world is kind of totally different now. I aspire to be that sort of guardian on this world.”
