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The mother of three — she and Hager, 41, also share 8-month-old son Henry “Hal” Harold — praises her mom for having “led by example” for herself and her sister as they grew up.

“She has a grace about her,” Bush Hager explains. “She’s unflappable, so even in the midst of trying times, she’s been the rock, the steady force that has kept our family calm in moments that were unspeakably turbulent.”

“Nobody was ever tense. Nobody was walking on eggshells,” she adds. “What she always conveyed is that we have the power to create the kind of home we want our kids to remember.”

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Bush’s own mother, Jenna Hawkins Welch (who died last year at the age of 99, two days before Mother’s Day), “was a knowledgeable self-taught naturalist” who taught her daughter “to look up at the sky and the stars.”

“I can still remember bird-watching with her and lying on the grass on a blanket in the summer, looking up at the constellations,” Bush, 73, tells Southern Living, adding of the Texas town where she was raised, “In fact, Midland’s motto is ‘The Sky’s the Limit.’ Isn’t that great? It was so good to grow up there.”

Of what she learned from her mom about taking in “the beauty of the natural world,” Bush says, “Right now, that’s particularly good advice because everyone’s looking down at their screens.”

The May issue of Southern Living, which celebrates notable women and their relationships with their daughters right in time for Mother’s Day, is available Friday.

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