It's Better to Build Boys than Mend Men
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Book Description
Children have plenty of buddies. In an age when kids all around us are growing up without strong, positive guidance from their parents (who are busy, distracted, gone, or choose to be buddies instead of parents) children need someone they can look to with respect to help them build their lives.
When he was thirteen years old, Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, had such a man step into his life: a Sunday school teacher who modeled love, respect, hard work, and discipline. Cathy decided to follow that model, and today he has some 130 foster grandchildren, many of whom have broken their family's generational cycle of neglect through the encouragement of Cathy and other adults who reached out to them.
In It's Better to Build Boys Than Mend Men, Truett Cathy lays out a simple model for adults desiring to reach out to youth and challenges readers to allow God to work through them to change the life of a child. His book is filled with stories illustrating the principles of discipline, trust, reputation, generosity, common sense, peer pressure, and family stability.
Readers who follow their hearts into children's lives will find that their own lives are enriched as well.
About the Author
S. TRUETT CATHY, founder and chief executive officer of Chick-fil-A restaurants, is also founder of WinShape Homes, which are home for more than 130 foster children. He and his wife, Jeannette, live in the Atlanta area, where he has taught Sunday school to teenage boys for more than fifty years. The author of Eat Mor Chikin, he and his wife have three grown children and twelve grandchildren.
It's Better to Build Boys than Mend Men,S. Truett Cathy,Dick Parker,Art Linkletter,Looking Glass Books,1929619200,Child Care/Parenting,Family & Relationships,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Parenting - General
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