Jenna Bush Hager is engaged on setting boundaries relating to sharing tales about her youngsters.

Whereas talking with PEOPLE solely for this week’s cowl story, the As we speak with Hoda & Jenna present co-host, 41, mirrored on a narrative she shared about daughter Mila, 10, round this time two years in the past. “I do not fear about what I share about myself, as a result of frankly, I’m a reasonably open e book,” Bush Hager confirms.

“I believe what I’ve tried to reign in a bit and simply be extra cognizant of what I share of others, what I speak about or submit relating to my youngsters,” she continues. “They did not select this work.”

“Truly, because of PEOPLE, it helped put it into perspective as a result of when Mila’s first yr at camp, which was two years in the past, I learn one in all her letters residence,” Bush Hager says, revealing that after the story went viral, her daughter wasn’t too thrilled about what she had shared.

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“It was my option to share it,” she tells PEOPLE. “After which Mila was embarrassed. She was like, ‘Why would you share that? Why would you do this? Do not ever do this once more.'”

A yr later, Mila later got here on As we speak with Hoda & Jenna and “acquired revenge” by dropping some fact bombs about her mother, revealing that she “by no means wears underwear.”

“I believe it was such an excellent lesson as a result of it was such an innocuous, foolish matter,” Bush Hager displays. “However it helped me notice that typically sharing different folks’s tales, if they do not need them shared, is one thing I needed to work on.”

“Thanks PEOPLE Journal, you made me a greater mom,” the TV character teases.

Bush Hager shares her three youngsters — daughters Mila and Poppy, 8, plus son Hal, 4, — with husband Henry Chase Hager.

In July of 2021, Bush Hager shared on air that she had obtained the “saddest” letter from her then 8-year-old daughter, who was attending summer season camp in Texas. Saying that the letter “broke my coronary heart in one million items,” the co-host learn the letter on the printed, inflicting the word to go viral afterward.

“Pricey Mother and Dad, I miss you. I want I could possibly be with you,” she learn on the time. “P.S. Daddy, how for much longer until you decide me up? I miss you an excessive amount of. I have to cease crying. So goodbye. I miss you terribly, Mother and Dad.”

Though Mila finally acclimated and grew to like her expertise, Bush Hager stated, “It broke each of our hearts, however I did not suppose that … I simply put it on the market. Individuals would cease me on the road and be like, ‘When are you going to get Mila?’ I am like, ‘I used to be simply studying a letter!’ Then, the camp known as, they felt actually dangerous,” she stated in a earlier dialog with PEOPLE. “They had been like, ‘Don’t be concerned, she’s glad.’ I used to be like, ‘No, it is all okay.’ ”

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