More Right Than
Being a leader isn't always everything it's cracked up to be. Like the meme says, 'If You Want to be Liked, Don't be a Leader—Sell Ice Cream.'
Worse than not being liked is making the wrong decision. That's like a double scoop of something unpleasant. You become doubly unliked, and sometimes there is rebellion in the ranks.
I don't remember making any huge big life sinking wrong decisions. Most of mine would be considered small. However, when you make a wobble in the foundation, the final product is flawed.
One such flaw came about because of misinformation. When I was growing up the generation gap was becoming an accepted phenomenon. We began hearing the catch phrase "all children rebel", and that was part of the generation gap theory.
It was the idea that in order to find yourself, a teenager/young adult had to rebel against something. And most of our children were well on their way to becoming adults by the time I realized the error in that formula.
An acceptance of a vice is an encouragement of said vice. Encouraging rebellion isn't wise. By the last time I heard the phrase 'all children are going to rebel', I had enough sense to reject it.
It came out of the mouth of a young woman. I told her, that's not true. I know a number of children that don't rebel.
I did, and I do know children who honor their parents and their upbringing. I believe there is a disconnect in the term rebel.
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WWII was a horrendous war, and women-mothers stepped into leadership positions as cogs in the 'war effort'.
Some were unmarried women 'Rosie the Riveters', some were married women keeping the home fires burning, running war bond efforts and such like.
After the war to end all wars, soldier-fathers returned home to a world they no longer knew, nor understood. Society was awry and try as people might, the mold was broken.
The word 'husband' has three basic meanings: male partner in a marriage; a steward, a manager of someone else's property; a frugal manager. And that's how it had been.
The good woman of the home (wife) ran the household making sure the inside business of home and family ran smoothly. This freed her husband to steward his duties and be the strong overall protector and guide.
No matter how large or small the home, this arrangement worked until the war threw a monkey in the wrench.
