You, Me and the Penguins actor Jason Wilder shares his Christmas tips for parenting tween girls as a single dad
Jason Wilder parents two young girls as a single dad.
And the actor has some tips for surviving Christmas with a pair of tweens – let them buy their own presents.
He has two daughters, Savannah, 12, and Arielle, 9, and he tells Stellar they rule the roost.
Advice: Jason Wilder (pictured) parents two young girls as a single dad. And the actor has some tips for surviving Christmas with a pair of tweens – let them buy their own presents
‘I think they just want to be able to buy their own stuff this year. They’re like, ‘I don’t want to be disappointed in your presents, so let me sort that out,” he said.
‘Gone are the days of trying to figure it out. [Now] they’re just like ‘I want to buy my own clothes and get my own make-up’ and all that sort of stuff. I’m definitely entering a different stage of parenthood,’ he added.
Jason has been shooting his new film You, Me and the Penguins, alongside Tammin Sursok in recent months.
‘Gone are the days of trying to figure it out. [Now] they’re just like ‘I want to buy my own clothes and get my own make-up’ and all that sort of stuff. I’m definitely entering a different stage of parenthood,’ he said
The former Pretty Little Liars actress shared a particularly amusing moment from the set in July.
In footage posted to Instagram, co-star Jason is seen jumping up from his seat during what appears to be a script read-through with co stars Madeleine West and Nick Hardcastle.
‘I got sh*t on by a lorikeet,’ he’s heard saying, before Nick added: ‘You did, you really did.’
Tammin then asked what the commotion was all about with the other actors.
Laughs: Jason has been shooting his new film You, Me and the Penguins, alongside Tammin Sursok in recent months. The former Pretty Little Liars actress shared a particularly amusing moment from the set in July, when Jason was pooped on by a bird
‘He just got pooped on,’ Tammin then yelled, breaking into laughter.
You, Me and the Penguins was being shot in Brisbane with Tammin playing an outreach manager at the Animal Discovery Institute in San Diego.
Tammin’s character is forced to travel to Australia’s Crystal Bay Penguin Sanctuary when its threatened with closure.
The story arc gets its thrust when she gets heated with the head zoologist, played by Jason, after the pair are forced to work together.
Sweet film: You, Me and the Penguins was being shot in Brisbane with Tammin playing an outreach manager at the Animal Discovery Institute in San Diego. The cast is pictured
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