Channing Tatum Was "AFRAID" of Being a Single Dad

While Channing Tatum is inactive navigating fatherhood, helium does person immoderate proposal connected however to measurement up to the parenting plate.

In fact, the 43-year-old precocious reflected connected his travel raising 10-year-old Everly, whom helium shares with ex-wife Jenna Dewan.

While on Today With Hoda & Jenna May 30, Channing was asked whether helium has a doctrine arsenic a parent. He laughed, answering, "I person nary idea. I'm conscionable trying to get by, I deliberation conscionable similar each different parent, you're conscionable benignant of trying not to messiness kids up, but you cognize you're going to connected immoderate level."

And—despite joking that helium expected himself to beryllium the benignant of father who got his kid into much occupation than kept her retired of—he's learned a batch astir maintaining boundaries and mounting rules for children. 

"Even though they don't privation boundaries, they bash privation boundaries," helium explained. "Her anxiousness goes down, her accent level goes down erstwhile she conscionable understands the rules."

Channing's experiences navigating fatherhood besides led him to a caller role—being an author. 

The 21 Jump Street actor's 3rd children's publication successful the Sparkella series was conscionable released connected May 30, and is titled The One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lie. 

"I was looking up YouTube connected however to braid hair," helium explained regarding the series' origin. "Like, I didn't privation to beryllium the dada that was conscionable delivering a kid to schoolhouse looking similar she had conscionable slept connected the street."

"This bid of books benignant of came from that," helium continued. "It was truly trying to fig retired however to speech to a small girl."