Jenna Bush Hager Makes Parenting Revelation About What Her Kids Call Her

Jenna Bush Hager

Jenna Bush Hager  is apparently on a first-name basis with her children. 

The  Today  show co-anchor made the major parenting confession during a recent episode of Hoda & Jenna , where she revealed that she doesn't require her children to call her "mom." 

Instead, the 41-year-old TV personality's kids, Mila, 10,  Poppy, 8, and Hal, 4, love to call their mom by her first name, Jenna. 

Jenna opened up about the topic while chatting with her twin sister Barbara Bush  about retro baby names that are making a comeback, and somehow the two daughters of former President George W. Bush  ended up discussing what Hager's kids like to call her. 

"My children call me Jenna," she candidly told her sister, who made a point to say that, unlike her nieces and nephews, her daughter does not  call her Barbara. 

"That's something for you to unpack with them," Barbara told her sister of her three kiddos. 

"It is something for me to unpack with them," Jenna said through a laugh. "In fact, when we FaceTimed Hal from our Book Tour, he goes, 'Hello, Jenna! Hello, Jenna!'" 

Jenna went on to explain that she doesn't mind her kids calling her by her first name, and she even takes it as a "compliment" that her kids know her name. 

"He knows your name," Barbara agreed. 

Jenna's son Hal is the youngest of the three children she shares with husband Henry Hager , while Barbara shares her 2-year-old daughter Cora Georgia with husband Craig Coyne. 

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