Sheinelle Jones’s 16-year-old son, Kayin, quickly spotted an unexpected perk of her new role co-hosting the fourth hour of TODAY with Jenna Bush Hager.

For as long as he can remember, Kayin’s mother has worked in morning television, slipping out in the dark well before he and his 13-year-old twin siblings, Clara and Uche, were awake.

So upon learning that Friday episodes of the fourth hour are typically pre-taped, Kayin went to his mom with a request.

“My 16-year-old said, ‘So does that mean, Mom, you can take us to school sometimes in the morning on Friday?” Sheinelle recalled during the third hour of TODAY on Dec. 10, drawing an audible ripple of awwws from Al Roker, Craig Melvin and Dylan Dreyer.

“I was like, ‘You like me?’" she said, her face lighting up. She added that she joked

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