{"id":163377,"date":"2025-08-21T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163377\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:52:10","slug":"today-co-host-savannah-guthrie-reveals-the-rules-inside-her-11-year-old-daughters-phone-usage-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163377\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Today&#8217; co-host Savannah Guthrie reveals the rules inside her 11-year-old daughter&#8217;s phone usage &#8216;contract&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah Guthrie is dialed into her young daughter\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cToday\u201d show co-anchor shared the phone usage contract she wrote for her 11-year-old daughter, Vale, during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GIORl2DZo1Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cToday with Jena &amp; Friends.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter got a little personal iCloud address and I actually drafted a contract for her to sign,\u201d Guthrie said.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah Guthrie made her daughter sign a phone usage contract. TODAY with Jenna &amp; Friends \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that contract,\u201d co-host Jenna Bush Hager recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was basically like \u2018I know that mommy and daddy love me more than anything in the world,\u2019\u201d Guthrie explained. \u201c\u2018I know that mommy and daddy can read my texts. I know I wouldn\u2019t put in a text anything I don\u2019t want grandma and grandpa to see [or] that I wouldn\u2019t want to see on the front page of the New York Times.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vale only has an iCloud address and not an iPhone, Guthrie clarified.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of two insisted that even though Vale \u201cknows that I reserve the right to look at her texts,\u201d she confessed that she doesn\u2019t monitor them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trust her,\u201d Guthrie added.<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie discussed the contract with \u201cToday\u201d co-host Jenna Bush Hager on Wednesday. TODAY with Jenna &amp; Friends \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie confessed that she doesn\u2019t look at her daughter\u2019s iCloud messages even though she has access. Savannah Guthrie Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie added that she hopes her kids never have phones. Instagram \/ @savannahguthrie<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old broadcaster added that she believed the word \u201csnooping\u201d had a negative connotation and would rather call it \u201clooking\u201d or \u201cparenting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie publicly hoped that her kids would never have a phone but confessed that she might have a \u201cdifferent\u201d approach after they turn 16.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cToday\u201d co-anchor, who joined NBC\u2019s morning program in June 2011, shares two kids with her husband, Michael Feldman.<\/p>\n<p>Hager confessed that she was inspired to use a similar contract for her 9-year-old daughter, Poppy Louise Hager, when she turns 10.<\/p>\n<p>Hager claimed she will use a similar phone usage contract for her 9-year-old, Poppy. TODAY with Jenna &amp; Friends \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need the contract again, unless I can find it in my texts,\u201d Hager quipped to Guthrie.<\/p>\n<p>Texts addressed to Poppy are currently sent to Hager\u2019s phone, the 43-year-old television personality revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get her text messages because she just gives everybody my cell phone [number],\u201d she explained. \u201cWhich is enough to drive a mother- I mean by the way she doesn\u2019t text that much because she doesn\u2019t have a phone but she\u2019ll use her iPad to be like \u2018hey\u2019 and somebody will text back \u2018hey\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018What is happening where I\u2019m getting GiGi\u2019s Facetimes?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Hager said her eldest daughter, Margaret Laura \u201cMila\u201d Hager, received an iCloud address when she was around 10 or 11 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/06\/entertainment\/jenna-bush-hager-tearfully-recalls-advice-grandfather-george-h-w-bush-gave-her-before-he-died-ill-never-forget-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hager is the granddaughter of the late former President George H.W. Bush <\/a>and the daughter of former President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>She shares three kids, Mila, Poppy and Hal, with her husband Henry Hager, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/04\/jenna-bush-hager-mom-gave-me-gross-sex-talk-before-my-wedding-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whom she met in 2004<\/a> when he was working for her father on his reelection campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie is dialed into her young daughter\u2019s life. 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