Jenna Bush Hager Reveals the One Thing Her Son Hal, 5, Asked Her to Stop Doing at Bedtime
While speaking with Ben Falcone about his new children's book What's Scarier Than Thunder? on Thursday, March 20, the Today with Jenna and Friends host, 43, opened up about her bedtime reading experience with her son Hal, 5.
Bush Hager, who's also a mom to daughters Poppy, 9, and Mila, 11, shared that her little one sometimes dislikes the voices she uses to play the characters in the story.
"When I read to my little, he goes, 'Regular regular.' And, I go, 'What do you mean?' And he's like, 'I don't like that voice like, you don't need to perform with everything Mom,' " she shared. "I would do the voices, and he'd say 'Regular regular,' which I'm like, 'Geez.'
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Related: Jenna Bush Hager Reveals Her 'Biggest Concern' as a Mom of 3
Recently, the former first daughter, who shares her three children with her husband Henry Hager, opened up about one of the things she's the most concerned about as a mom of three.
While speaking with Monica Lewinsky about failure on the Wednesday, Feb. 19 episode of Today with Jenna and Friends, she noted she feels like that's one of the things she's concerned her kids won't be able to learn. Bush Hager shared that she thinks failing helps build her character.
"It's actually my biggest concern as a mom is I don't think our kids are allowed to fail," Bush Hager said. "And I failed publicly and it's actually what makes me, I feel like, my superpower."
"I feel brave because you can come out of something," she added. "We need to teach kids that they can come out of things."
The mom of three has been candid about her journey to motherhood over the years, admitting that "logistics can be difficult" now with three children. However, the proud mom devotes her time to "making sure that each child has the love that I know I feel for them."
Overall, expanding her family has brought her more joy than ever. "It's fun," she told PEOPLE after the birth of her third child. "I'm really happy."
All parenting challenges aside, Bush Hager would love to have more children.
"I'd like to have another baby," she recently said on an episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna. "We're not. Henry put his foot down. He says we have three healthy babies."
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