We had a few officers in our small community....one named ‘Yorky’ nobody forgets even to this day. He was a midget. But there’s not a kid in town who wasn’t afraid of him. His voice was so deep it scared the daylights out of you...when he spoke we jumped! On the other hand he was good to all the kids as well...we loved it because he was no taller than we were!
But kids respected the officers then...as well other adults. If our neighbors saw us up to something we shouldn’t be they didn’t hesitate to raise their voices. Today “you can’t interfer”.
My dad died when we were young from military wounds...when my brother got to be about twelve my sister’s boyfriend said he needed to toughen up like a young man.....so they put him on their farm to work during hay season. He took his “butterfly net” because he was into science and biology......can you imagine what those big tough farm hands put him through! But he learned...he did learn. LOLOL
There really is something to a man having some bass in his voice. It doesn’t seem to matter how tall he is; that voice alone can command respect. :-)
Yep, in many cases, we just can’t interfere today and tell parents when their kids are misbehaving. Or the parents might get angry at us.
I’m sure your brother learned a lot working on that farm... Sorry about your father.
Over the past year, I took my middle son down to the local fire dept. and had him sign up to learn more about what they do there. When I mentioned to them that he doesn’t seem to have much self-confidence, they said, “Oh, don’t worry, he will when we’re through with him.” LOL.