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Being a working dad to a toddler is a completely different skill set from entertaining them. John Pearce, AKA Big Strong John from the Wiggles, talks about tour life, shifting priorities and why fatherhood changed his stage persona.

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00:00what's something fatherhood has taught you that being a wiggle absolutely did not prepare you for
00:07so it's that yeah like you're performing for kids you know how to kind of communicate with
00:11what is henry kind of thrown at you going oh that's unexpected yeah i think being a wiggle
00:17like my background is not even in childhood education it's not a teacher i'm an entertainer
00:23i was in justice group for years so being a wiggle was by accident so like what i learned
00:29at the wiggles you know it was you know how to sing and dance to children and how to communicate
00:33with children through performance being a parent is a totally different thing i feel like once you
00:38become a parent it almost altered the way i became a wiggle because i started communicating differently
00:43as if i was talking to my son and he would respond differently to what i imagined it would have
00:47been
00:47like if i wasn't a parent so you think being a dad has made you a better has made me
00:51a better wiggle
00:52that's beautiful oh really flip that that was unexpected
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