Ward, don’t be too hard on the Beaver!
Good point. Barbara's June Cleaver exemplified the ideal mother, stern when need be, but a tempering influence on the uncompromising disciplinarian that fly-off-the-handle Ward often was (not that that was a bad thing, Ward was nearly the ideal father.)
Remember when Beaver lost his haircut money (again) and talked Wally into doing the job? Hilarious!! And Ward was about to sentence them to severe punishment when June brought it to his attention that maybe the boys were afraid to come to them with their problems for a reason. Wow, what a diplomat.
I like to think that Barbara brought a lot of herself to that role.