Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie Share Advice for Limiting Kids’ Expectations Around the Holidays

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Keeping Santa in check! While Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie are gearing up to host NBC’s 90th Christmas in Rockefeller Center on November 30, the Today hosts are also busy teaching their children about the holiday season at home. “I think we really try to focus on what the holidays are about.

No. 1, of course, family, but also faith and remembering what the holiday means, what it means to us, why we celebrate and taking some quiet time,” Guthrie, 50, explained. “The holidays can be crazy, especially in our country.

We can all be focused on the consumer stuff and buy, buy, buy. We really try to emphasize the songs, the togetherness, the faith.” To help keep the focus on things other than gifts, Guthrie is continuing a long-standing family tradition with her kids — daughter Vale, 8, and son Charles, 5, whom she shares with husband Michael Feldman. “One of the traditions that we always had in my family and I try to continue is that my father would always read the story from the Bible on Christmas Eve of Jesus’ birth.

And that’s something that we are still doing in our family,” the Cooking from Scratch host told Us.  “I think it’s things like that that remind them that this isn’t just about this stuff and getting stuff.