Jenna Bush Hager turned her mother’s mistake into an important lesson for her daughters.

In the episode of Thursday, August 15 TodayThe 42-year-old co-host said she recently threw away one of her daughter’s dance trophies during a “big clean-up” while her daughters Poppy, 9, and Mila, 11, were at summer camp.

“You know, when I feel uncomfortable,” Bush Hager began, “I just throw things away.”

The mother of three paused before revealing: “I got caught.”

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“There was a trophy – I didn’t know they wanted it. It was for a dance,” Bush Hager explained, adding that the award was just for participation. “It was like saying, ‘You danced! So you get a trophy,'” she joked.

“And you threw it away?” asked her co-host Hoda Kotb.

“Yeah,” Bush Hager admitted. “I threw it away. I went in there and really got to work.”

Kotb then gave Bush Hager some words of wisdom. “What do you know now?” she said. “I think you’re teaching your children that things aren’t important.”

Luckily, says Bush Hager, her children quickly forgot about the mishap. “Four seconds later, they didn’t want to do it anymore.”

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This is not the first time Bush Hager has admitted to throwing away something special belonging to her daughter. In May 2023, Mila scolded her mother for it.

“I learned something last night,” Bush Hager said. “I put Mila to bed and she said, ‘I need to talk to you about something.'”

“I said, ‘Yeah?’ ‘I know you threw away my mirror that I made at camp. And I saw it in the trash can. I don’t appreciate it, and I was talking to Poppy the other day at breakfast, and she doesn’t like you throwing away our art, so stop,'” Bush told Hager.

“Now, if you see a piece of paper with scribbles on it, you can throw it away, but you will be hurting the feelings of the things Poppy and I hold dear.”