Dads, You Need to Hear What Bréne Brown Has to Say About Fatherhood

During her recent Netflix special “The Call to Courage,” best-selling author and vulnerability expert Bréne Brown touched on an important misconception many fathers have about what it means to be a hero to their kids.

While at the lake with her family, Bréne’s husband shared with her a nightmare he had. In the nightmare, he was helping his kids and nieces and nephews swim across the lake when a ski boat began approaching them. In order to save all of the kids, he swam them down to the bottom of the lake. He was trying to keep them safe and alive when he noticed his son wouldn’t make it under water much longer, but the boat was coming and he didn’t know what to do.

Bréne tried to reassure her husband after he told her about the dream, but he told her he didn’t believe in her reassurances.

“Here’s what you want,” he said. “You want the guy that when the speed boat comes, he takes all six of the kids, throws them, then swims so fast, he catches them, sets them down on the dock then looks…