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It's Better to Build Boys Than Mend Men

S. Truett Cathy

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Children have plenty of buddies. In an age when kids all around us are growing up without strong, positive guidance from their 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.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Looking Glass Books, Inc

Release: August 01, 2004

ISBN: 1929619200

ISBN 13: 9781929619207

It's Better to Build Boys Than Mend Men

S. Truett Cathy

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Children have plenty of buddies. In an age when kids all around us are growing up without strong, positive guidance from their 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.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Looking Glass Books, Inc

Release: August 01, 2004

ISBN: 1929619200

ISBN 13: 9781929619207

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