Fatherhood Requires Brotherhood - an Introduction to Council of Fathers

[00:07:11] Dave: Yeah. You have, you have this great quote that you put into the council from the beginning, which is. Fatherhood requires brotherhood. And I just love that because I think, you know, once upon a time there was a community of men living on land together and working together and learning from each other and watching each other.

And that's not the case anymore. We don't grow up most of us anyway, don't grow up working next to our fathers and watching our grandfathers and watching our uncles and learning how to deal with the emotions from watching them deal with thoughts from conversing with them. Most of us are quite isolated in our own family units and then we're, we're sort of, you know, golf balls in the dark. Like we're, we're really trying to figure this thing out. Yeah. That's kind of the most complex thing I've ever done. parenting. And I, and I'm trying to figure it out from my children. teaching me, you And so in a way, what what we're trying to create is. , a way to draw upon each other and, and, um, have the community be smarter than the individual something like that.