“I did not plan to be a single dad,” Channing says as he explains the “guidelines” in his home.

The actor appeared on a latest episode of “TODAY with Hoda and Jenna,” to advertise his newest kids’s e-book, “The One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lie“, and ended up speaking extensively about his life as a single dad.

Hoda Kotb made the primary probe, asking what kind of father he’s to daughter Everly, 10, who he shares with ex Jenna Dewan.

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“I do not know, I don’t know. I’m Simply attempting to get by,” he admitted. “I feel like each different guardian, you’re simply attempting to not mess your youngsters up. However you recognize you are going to.”

“Once I knew I used to be going to have a child, I used to be like, ‘Alright, I’m in all probability going to be the guardian — I plan to be the guardian — who was in all probability going to get her in additional hassle than I stored her out of.’ After which as they type of grow old, you begin to understand, ‘Oh, I’ve to set boundaries,’” Channing added.

“And weirdly, youngsters, though they do not need boundaries, they do need boundaries,” he continued. “Her nervousness goes down, her stress degree goes down when she simply understands the principles. They usually’re not even your guidelines, we name them the home guidelines.”

The foundations, in the meantime, are easy sufficient: “you gotta at all times take your plate to the sink, you gotta decide up your garments, you gotta brush your enamel — simply actually regular, easy stuff.”

Jenna Bush Hager famous how the Sparkella e-book collection started roughly across the time Channing had cut up from Dewan.

“I did not plan to be a single dad, that was not within the playing cards [or] in my planning as a minimum,” Channing stated. “And I used to be fairly nervous. I used to be like, ‘She’s a woman.’ I used to be like trying up YouTube on find out how to braid her hair. I did not wish to be the dad who was bringing her to highschool trying like she had simply slept on the road. So yeah, this collection of books type of got here from that. It was me actually determining find out how to speak to a little bit lady.”

Channing and Dewan cut up in 2018 after 9 years of marriage.