Jenna Bush Hager: 'Daddy and mommy both do diapers.' George W. Bush set the example

Sonja Haller, USA TODAY
Jenna Bush Hager and her husband Henry Hager split the parenting duties equally, she says.
Jenna Bush Hager and her husband Henry Hager split the parenting duties equally, she says.

"Today" show star Jenna Bush Hager is unabashedly a big fan of her parents, former President George W. Bush and wife Laura.

She's especially fond of their parenting style. The mom of three, including latest arrival 3-month-old son, Hal, told People that she watched her parents equally split the parenting duties.

"In a time when probably a lot of dads weren’t showing up, my dad showed up, and he helped because there was no choice. There were two of us at the same time, ," Hager said, referring to her twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush, "and they were equal parents."

Hager, 37, also mom to daughters Poppy, 4, and Margaret “Mila," 6, recalled, "our parents made time for us."

View this post on Instagram

We left the house!!!! Life is wilder and we are perpetually late and walk slower. But life with Hal is so, so sweet.

A post shared by Jenna Bush Hager (@jennabhager) on Aug 12, 2019 at 6:17am PDT

MORE JENNA:

She and husband Henry Hager, 41, intend to do the same, she said.

"Daddy and Mommy both do diapers," Hager said. "Daddy and Mommy both do bedtime. We both do baths. We both do dinner."

Both parents travel for work, so the morning show host told People that not everything is equal all of the time and their house may not be perfect. "Meanwhile there’s glitter slime everywhere," she said.

Hager said they look to her parents again when it comes to balancing home and work life.

"When my parents got home from work, there was nothing else. We didn't have the internet," she said. "So that worries me, just about all of our kids — that hopefully they know that they’re our priority and that we’re not looking down at our computers or our telephones and making them feel like they’re insignificant."

Hager says being a family of five in a two-career household can be crazy. But she has her parents to look to as an example and after that, she just owns it.

"Whenever anybody walks in, we go, 'Welcome to the nut house.' Who says that? I do," she said.

Follow the latest from USA TODAY Parenting at usatoday.com/life/parenting.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jenna Bush Hager says dad George W. Bush taught her 50/50 parenting