Hoda Kotb celebrates Easter with daughters Hope and Haley.Photo:John Nacion/Getty Images; Hoda Kotb/Instagram
John Nacion/Getty Images; Hoda Kotb/Instagram
Hoda Kotbhad a fun-filledEasterwith her little girls.
TheTodayshow co-anchor, 59, shared an adorable video onInstagramof herself enjoying egg-hunting with daughtersHope, 4, andHaley, 7.
“Happy easter xoxo 🐰 🐣,” she captioned the video, which saw Haley and Hope searching their home for hidden eggs.
In the clip, Haley found a treasure trove of eggs beneath a couch, and, at Kotb’s encouragement, split the loot with her sister, giving her two eggs to open.
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Hoda Kotb’s daughters Hope and Haley’s Easter baskets.Hoda Kotb/Instagram
Hoda Kotb/Instagram
In a recent episode of her podcast,Making Space, Kotb shared insights into how she’s been preparing her two daughters for a significant move.
“My kids and I are gearing up to relocate to a new area for a different school, and it got me thinking about my own experiences growing up and how frequently we moved,” Kotb said while speaking to her guest, Arthur Brooks.
Hoda Kotb’s daughters Hope and Haley during their Easter egg hunt.Hoda Kotb/Instagram
“I remember when my parents relocated us to Nigeria when I was in fourth grade — it was a shock,” she continued. “The language was unfamiliar, everyone seemed different, and it was a challenging adjustment. And then again in sixth grade.”
“It’s interesting because now, as an adult, the stories I share are about how I persevered or coped. Yet, as I prepare my children, I feel this instinct to shield them from experiences they might actually benefit from,” added Kotb.
Hoda Kotb with Hope and Haley.Hoda Kotb/Instagram
In November, the mom of two dropped a piece of advice she received that helped quell her older daughter’s meltdowns.
“I am learning so much about raising my kids,” Kotb said. “I’m learning because what I realized is, there are resources available if we need to help raise our child. I think sometimes we think, ‘My child’s this way…’ — ‘cause sometimes at our house, Haley will have a meltdown about something and I didn’t know how to deal with it.”
“And someone was helping me, they said, ‘This is what you should do.’ In case anyone has a child with meltdowns, what do you do? So If your child says, ‘I’m scared, I’m scared! Something’s under the bed!’ Don’t go, ‘Look honey, there’s nothing, why are you scared, there’s nothing to be scared of,' " she continued.
“Or, ‘My friends don’t like me!’ ‘They like you!’ — Don’t do that! The very first thing you should do, they say, grownups and kids, is validate your child’s feelings. ‘That must be scary.’ And then all of a sudden, the shoulders drop and then you can have a conversation,” Kotb added.
“And then he said something to me that was a game-changer for me. ‘Cause sometimes the meltdown’s happening and it’s bedtime, so you want to go, ‘But honey, you gotta got to bed.’ But honey, you gotta go to sleep.’ He said, ‘Take the wordbutout of your sentence and put in the wordand.’ So in other words, ‘Honey, I see what you’re saying. And honey, your body needs to rest.ANDhoney, your body needs to rest!’ " she concluded.
source: people.com
