Bruce Feiler The council of dads

The staff are the moms and dads of America's children.

And dads and daughters are completing circuits in special ways.

Can your dads take their teeth out like my dad?

I would call this group of men the Council of Dads.

We'll be your dads until we find your actual dumb parents.

Then, shall we celebrate these two dads with a beer party?

And don't tell me it's from the guys and the coaches and the dads.

And I said to myself I would call this group of men the Council of Dads.

The Duranno Father School teaches stoic Korean dads how to be more involved and loving parents.

A few admit with chagrin that they ve turned out to be a lot like their own dads.

Someone asked me if he cried when I asked him to be in the council of dads.

Sometimes we see dads get more excited than their kids playing with Legos or putting together plastic robots.

Playgroup is an informal session where mums, dads, grand parents, caregivers, children and babies meet together in a relaxed environment.

The Father School is a four day retreat of sorts, designed to transform stoic Korean dads into more loving and involved parents.

And mostly what good dads should be doing this time of year is nestling with their kids and decorating the Christmas tree.

Those were farmers and ranchers, those were people from indigenous communities, those were business leaders, those were grandparents and moms and dads.

In fact, the school is staffed entirely by graduates. The older men say they don t want to see younger dads repeat their mistakes.

No, it can be two moms, three dads, in vitro there's the whole idea of how babies can be made today that has changed.

I mean, I think the Netflix queue is one way that we can do something very important, and I'm talking mainly to the dads here.

So it turned out that starting a council of dads was a very efficient way to find out what my wife really thought of my friends.

So a few weeks after my diagnosis, we went up to Vermont, and I decided to put Jeff as the first person in the Council of Dads.

And that is, the secret of the Council of Dads, is that my wife and I did this in an attempt to help our daughters, but it really changed us.

And then I asked him a question, which I ended up asking to all the dads and ended up really encouraging me to write this story down in a book.

And that is, the secret of the Council of Dads, is that my wife and I did this in an attempt to help our daughters, but it really changed us.

All my childhood, while my friends' dads would tell them Grimm's fairy tales, my father would tell me stories about very unassuming heroes with unshakeable utopias who managed to make miracles.

All my childhood, while my friends' dads would tell them Grimm's fairy tales, my father would tell me stories about very unassuming heroes with unshakeable utopias who managed to make miracles.

I wrote a letter to my girls that appears at the end of my book, The Council of Dads, and I listed these lessons, a few of which you've heard here today

And that particularly happened there was one in my life is this Council of Dads that Linda said, what we were talking about, it's like what the moms talk about at school drop off.

And that particularly happened there was one in my life is this Council of Dads that Linda said, what we were talking about, it's like what the moms talk about at school drop off.

I thank my sons for their tireless work on behalf of the campaign, and thank their wives and children (cheers, applause) for taking up their slack as their husbands and dads have spent so many weeks away from home.

Because it's not anymore Mom, Dad, the flowers and the bees, and then there's the baby. No, it can be two moms, three dads, in vitro there's the whole idea of how babies can be made today that has changed.

I wrote a letter to my girls that appears at the end of my book, The Council of Dads, and I listed these lessons, a few of which you've heard here today Approach the cow, pack your flipflops, don't see the wall, live the questions, harvest miracles.

Diagnosed with cancer, Bruce Feiler worried first about his young family. So as he shares in this funny, rambling and ultimately thoughtful talk he asked his closest friends to become a council of dads, bringing their own lifetimes of wisdom to advise his twin daughters as they grow.

But male role models for boys that say it's all right to be smart they've got dads, they've got pastors, they've got Cub Scout leaders, but ultimately, six hours a day, five days a week they're spending in a classroom, and most of those classrooms are not places where men exist.