Being a father is easier when there is a “little platoon” around us.
That is a lesson I learned when my second son was born. Thankfully, there were men (and women) around who helped wrangle the firstborn so my wife could recover and spend time with our second son.
This Father’s Day, it is worth remembering the men who pitch in to make life a little easier on families in their communities.
“Part of what plagues our society is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our communities,” Harrison Butker, one of our great political philosophers, said recently. “As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction and chaos set in.”
“Disorder, dysfunction, and chaos,” is actually the slogan of having two children under 2 and a wife recovering from labor.
But there were men, at least 15 by my count,…
