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Channing Tatum Confesses He Was 'Pretty Nervous' About Being a Single Dad to His Daughter

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It's been four years since Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan went their separate ways, and now, he's opening up about how their split affected his relationship with his daughter, Everly.
In fact, Channing admitted that he was "pretty nervous" to become a single dad when this part of his life first began.
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HE NEVER THOUGHT HE'D BE A SINGLE DAD.
"I didn’t plan to be a single dad, that was not in the cards [or] in my planning at the least. And I was pretty nervous," he said.
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"I was like, 'She’s a girl.' I was like looking up YouTube on how to braid her hair. I didn’t want to be the dad who was bringing her to school looking like she had just slept on the street."
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"I’m just trying to get by. I think like every other parent, you’re just trying not to mess your kids up. But you know you’re going to," he said.
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HE ADMITTED HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF PARENT HE IS.
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Channing's daughter is now 10 years old, but before she was born, he thought that he would "get her in more trouble than I kept her out of."
HE SET "HOUSE RULES" FOR EVERLY.
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"And weirdly, kids, even though they don’t want boundaries, they do want boundaries. Her anxiety goes down, her stress level goes down when she just understands the rules ...
And they’re not even your rules, we call them the house rules," he told the news program, adding that the rules are things like "you gotta always take your plate to the sink, you gotta pick up your clothes, you gotta brush your teeth — just really normal, simple stuff."
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH EVERLY HAS INSPIRED HIM TO WRITE CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
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"This series of books kind of came from that. It was me really figuring out how to talk to a little girl," he said.
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And although he's been open about the fact that walking this unexpected path after his divorce hasn't always been easy, it seems like he and Everly are doing just fine. Being a single parent is certainly a challenge, but Channing seems to have the hang of it!
IT SEEMS LIKE HE'S FIGURED OUT HIS SINGLE DAD ROUTINE.