Cory Hardrict says he does 30 things a day with his kids on the weekends

Cory Hardrict is not having fun with fatherhood and it shows. On weekends,the actor said he does 30 things a day with his children, Cairo, 6, and Cree, 13.

“Yes, it’s my weekend, and when it’s daddy’s weekend, we have a ball,” he told PEOPLE at the seventh annual Black Love Summit in Los Angeles, where he was a guest on a panel on fatherhood. “We do about 30 things a day and it’s very exciting.”

The actor has two children with his ex-wife and alum Tia Mowry.

“So for them to be here and I used to be doing my daughter’s hair this morning, her nanny was doing her hair here, but all the dead ends on the edges had fallen off and were all there, so I needed to get some grease that I saw around the house and we were good to go. I smoothed it out and here we’re.

Hardrict continued, “That’s the beauty of being a father, you don’t know, but you try to figure it out and make it work. You will make things work for your children. It was great for my son and daughter to see me here.”

The actor also explained that he had all the time dreamed of fatherhood.

“I always wanted to uplift and inspire someone who would come after me, someone I could look up to and show them that anything is possible in this world.”

He concluded: “The idea of ​​having children was a beautiful thing to me and still is. I try to instill in my children great qualities, honesty and morality that they can carry on throughout their lives… They are my world. They mean everything to me and I live because of them.”

Cory and Tia were together for 14 years before she filed for divorce in 2022. In 2023, the first couple finalized their divorce. That same yr, the actor opened up about how difficult his divorce from Mowry was for him at the American Black Film Festival.

“It’s hard when you feel like you’re going through something alone and no one understands you and there’s no one there for you,” discussed in the online clip. He continued: “I cried myself to sleep every night for a year and a half. People who know me know that my children and family were everything to me. I’m stronger than I thought. By the grace of God I am here and still going.”