{"id":30255,"date":"2025-07-08T00:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=30255"},"modified":"2025-07-08T00:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:34:20","slug":"jenna-bush-hager-recounts-dropping-her-kids-off-at-camp-in-texas-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=30255","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Bush Hager Recounts Dropping Her Kids Off at Camp in Texas Over the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ecd880\" class=\"body-graf\">While news from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/news\/camp-mystic-location-victims-texas-floods-rcna217066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Mystic<\/a>, the storied Texas sleepaway camp that has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/news\/camp-mystic-location-victims-texas-floods-rcna217066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">devastated by last week&#8217;s flood,<\/a>\u00a0continues to dominate the news, Jenna Bush Hager revealed that she dropped her daughters off at a similar Texas sleepaway camp over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-126aeb\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;My kids got dropped off at camp yesterday, at another camp in Texas, and putting them on the bus, saying goodbye to them &#8230;&#8221; Jenna said at the beginning of TODAY with Jenna &amp; Friends on July 7, her voice halting with emotion at times.<\/p>\n<div id=\"taboolaReadMoreBelow\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"anchor-fc25ba\" class=\"body-graf\">Last year was the first year that both of Jenna&#8217;s daughters, Mila, 12, and Poppy, 9,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/parents\/jenna-bush-hager-mila-poppy-sleepaway-camp-rcna160692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attended sleep-away camp together<\/a>. Their camp is the same one her mom attended as a child, and Jenna has called it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/jenna-bush-hager-shares-sweet-reunion-picking-up-mila-from-camp-189623365723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a rite of passage.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-fa2c9f\" class=\"body-graf\">But the experience hits differently this year.<\/p>\n<section id=\"anchor-ab5ebe\" class=\"embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium\" data-testid=\"embed-widget\">\n<div class=\"embed-widget__use-presentation embed-widget__iframely-instagram\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"iframely-instagram iframely-app iframely-embed\">\n<div class=\"iframely-responsive\"><iframe title=\"Instagram, Jenna Bush Hager on Instagram: \" src=\"https:\/\/iframe.nbcnews.com\/LyMOqpIU?_showcaption=true&amp;app=1\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIsC_ZaAqVF\/?img_index=1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p id=\"anchor-038d79\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cWe think about the horror of sending our kids to a place that that is supposed to be \u2014 and is \u2014 healing and fun and joyful, and all the things that kids deserve to have, and then for something like this to happen,\u201d Jenna said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1d292c\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;And I know so many parents whose kids are at camp or going to camp feel that way,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We send our kids into the world with the faith that they can have happy lives, joyful lives. And as adults, we know pain. We hope that our kids never face it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-476882\" class=\"body-graf\">Jenna and husband Henry Hager are also parents to son Hal, who is 5.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-d9438e\" class=\"body-graf\">Cohost Dwyane Wade added, \u201cAs parents, there are certain places that we send our kids, and we feel those are the places of safety for them \u2014 the school and camps \u2014 because we know the growth and evolution that happens at these these places, but tragedy also occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-intersection-ref\" data-activity-map=\"recommended-article-body-recommended\" data-testid=\"recommended-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"anchor-18256a\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;Texas is a resilient, incredible state,&#8221; Jenna said. &#8220;You all know I\u2019m a homesick Texan living in New York, and it always is in my heart. And we know that so many of you want to help, and\u00a0<em>are<\/em>\u00a0helping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section id=\"anchor-dee3fe\" class=\"embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium\" data-testid=\"embed-widget\">\n<div class=\"embed-widget__use-presentation embed-widget__iframely-instagram\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"iframely-instagram iframely-app iframely-embed\">\n<div class=\"iframely-responsive\"><iframe title=\"Instagram, Jenna Bush Hager on Instagram: \" src=\"https:\/\/iframe.nbcnews.com\/w1wPkA8L?_showcaption=true&amp;app=1\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHoxjAcyONf\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p id=\"anchor-93f290\" class=\"body-graf\">Jenna has a special\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/jenna-bush-hager-camp-mystic-texas-flooding-rcna217176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family connection to Camp Mystic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-5d152e\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">\u201cMy mom was a counselor there, but also so many of my friends were raised at this camp,\u201d Jenna said. \u201cTexas camps are institutions, as you just heard, where were many family members \u2014 generations \u2014 this camp was 100 years old, so grandmothers, mothers, kids have all gone there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; While news from\u00a0Camp Mystic, the storied Texas sleepaway camp that has been\u00a0devastated by last week&#8217;s flood,\u00a0continues to dominate the news, Jenna Bush Hager revealed that she dropped her &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30257,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255\/revisions\/30257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}