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Medium Josh Duhamel hugs, kisses wife Fergie on arrivals line at \"Safe Haven\" premiereAP EntertainmentLos Angeles, 20 March 20132. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Duhamel/Actor, on impending...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 5 February 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Medium Josh Duhamel hugs, kisses wife Fergie on arrivals line at \"Safe Haven\" premiere\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Duhamel/Actor, on impending fatherhood: \u003cbr/\u003e\"You have a chance to see life through a child's eyes again. There's something really exciting about that to me. People used to say, 'Oh you should have them young so that by the time they leave, you're still young.' Well to me, I've lived my youth. Now I get to relive my youth through my child and see my child live all that. So everybody's got a different path. I wouldn't change anything. We're completely happy. We're much wiser than we were ten years ago. We're much more ready. I think we're so strong as a couple and I think that all of those things are really important when you bring a little one into the world.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Medium Duhamel talks to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Duhamel/Actor, on impending fatherhood: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I've always always loved kids and I've always wanted to be a father. To me, it's the most important thing in the world. I don't claim to know anything. We're going to learn like anybody else learns when they first have a kid. So my goal is to just raise a good little human being, that's it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 5 February 2013\u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium tilt down Josh Duhamel on arrivals line\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Duhamel/Actor, on impending fatherhood: \u003cbr/\u003e\"This is something I've sort of been watching for years. All of my friends have kids. My sister has got twins. I have two younger sisters -- much younger. One was...She had one when I was a sophomore in high school, and another one when I was a sophomore in college.\"\u003cbr/\u003eReporter: \"So you were kind of a dad.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDuhamel: \"So I helped a lot as a teenager helping my mom with them. I remember, it was the weirdest thing - my mom has babies all of a sudden. I was like, 'Mother you're not even supposed to be having sex. What are these and where did they come from?'\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide zoom to medium Duhamel talks to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Duhamel/Actor, on parenting advice he received: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I've just picked a lot up along the way. Whether it's - from giving them structure at an early age to - when they wake up in the middle of the night, you don't cuddle them or get their attention. You just feed them and put them right back.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 5 February 2013\u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium pan left Fergie on arrivals line \u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Duhamel/Actor, on giving Fergie parenting advice: \u003cbr/\u003e\"You know, I was telling my wife yesterday. She didn't know that you can bathe kids in a sink when they're newborn. That's where you bathe them, in a sink, because they're so little. She's like, 'Really?!'\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium Duhamel talks to reporter \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Duhamel/Actor, on childproofing home: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm realizing how much work we're going to have to do to childproof our place. Or move. We're not sure yet.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Medium Duhamel talks to reporter \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Duhamel/Actor, on childproofing home: \u003cbr/\u003e\"You start thinking about those things. You really do, and things that I've never thought about before.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: \"Like what?\")\u003cbr/\u003eDuhamel: \"Windows. Making sure there's, you know. Balconies! Stairs! All of it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eReporter:\"They're all terrifying.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDuhamel: \"Yeah.That's my, I really don't want to be the guy who like is constantly -- and that I know I'm going to be. You know your kid is going to get - he's going to fall and bump his head. And he's going to do all of those things. But that to me is going to be the hardest thing.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 5 February 2013\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide Duhamel on arrivals line\u003cbr/\u003eIs a boy on the way for Josh Duhamel and Fergie? \u003cbr/\u003eThe expectant couple haven't announced their baby's gender but Duhamel referred to a boy when discussing child-proofing their home. \u003cbr/\u003e\"You know your kid is going to get - he's going to fall and bump his head. And he's going to do all of those things. But that to me is going to be the hardest thing,\" Duhamel told The Associated Press. \u003cbr/\u003eDuhamel was discussing impending fatherhood in an interview to promote his role as host of this weekend's Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles. \u003cbr/\u003eFergie just announced her pregnancy last month - though the couple have fielded questions about when they'd have children since even before they married in 2009. \u003cbr/\u003eDuhamel said in his interview that the time is right. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Now I get to relive my youth through my child and see my child live all that. So everybody's got a different path,\" Duhamel said. \"I wouldn't change anything. We're completely happy. We're much wiser than we were ten years ago. We're much more ready. I think we're so strong as a couple and I think that all of those things are really important when you bring a little one into the world.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe 40-year-old actor says he's gotten plenty of advice from friends and family about parenthood, and has experience dealing with babies at home because he has two much younger sisters. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I've just picked a lot up along the way. Whether it's - giving them structure at an early age to - when they wake up in the middle of the night, you don't cuddle them or get their attention. You just feed them and put them right back.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDuhamel has actually already been able to give parenting advice to 37-year Stacy Ferguson.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"You know, I was telling my wife yesterday. She didn't know that you can bathe kids in a sink when they're newborn. That's where you bathe them, in a sink, because they're so little. She's like, 'Really?!'\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, the couple hasn't yet started putting together a nursery or doing other household preparations. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm realizing how much work we're going to have to do to childproof our place. Or move. We're not sure yet,\" he said. \"You start thinking about those things. You really do, and things that I've never thought about before.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDuhamel is hosting the Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday (23 March 2013) in Los Angeles. 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