Now, listen, Dads.

Ah, these dads!

I'm not your Dads, either.

Bruce Feiler The council of dads

Mums and dads, aunts and so on.

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

And dads and daughters are completing circuits in special ways.

Applaud now and then, we pray, dear Mums and Dads and Aunts!

The older men say they don t want to see younger dads repeat their mistakes.

Most of my buddies' dads worked on the assembly line, and were union employees.

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

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

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

Infants and children no longer enjoy a single caregiver, as most moms and dads have to work.

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.

The same with dad one can assume something like promiscuity, you know, sleeping around can result in having multiple dads.

You can t really see reaction in person, you see it more in his writing typical dads, you know, she said, smiling.

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.

I bid you welcome to our show, especially the Head and his spouse. The whole audience, Mums, Dads, Aunts and kids... Go away!

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.

Then it turned out that the whole project started with a loan in Nordea bank, because none of them had dads with lots of money.

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.

And don't tell me it's from the guys and the coaches and the dads, because the women in my life are harder on me than anyone else.

And don't tell me it's from the guys and the coaches and the dads. Because the women in my life are harder on me than anyone else.

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.

For one thing the army was a meritocracy. Generals weren't chosen based on who their dads were, they were chosen based on if they were good at Generalling.

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.

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.

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.