A Boy Should Know How To Tie a Tie by Antwone Fisher
By Sharel Gordon-Love • Apr 26th, 2010 • Category: Book Review 2010 •
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Author Antwone Fisher penned a timely self-help book that clearly explains how important the basic things in life that pertain to life and living it successfully. The things that most people would not think are important really are, as they build character, self-esteem, self-worth and provide lessons on one’s way to succeeding in life. Simply, it begins with the basics.
Drawing from his own life experiences, Author Fisher shares how important it is to know how to tie a tie and what it means to a young boy. From hygiene to clothing to developing life plans to inventing yourself, the basics of doing these things are an integral part of who you will become. Discipline, starting with taking care of your body, keeping yourself clean and presentable, from your haircut to the shoes you wear, even the food you eat and how you care for the spiritual side of yourself.
Personal experiences and suggestions are not what make this book; it is the illustrations and instructions on how to tie a tie, how to shave, the type of clothing every young man should have in his closet, how to ensure that your clothing is clean and what to do when traveling, and a host of other very basic ways of living that would help a young man to not only put his best foot forward, but to present who he is the first time someone makes his acquaintance. This very detailed, very frank and open-hearted book reveals that the basics may seem simple at first glance, but they are indeed the foundation and blueprint that will help our young boys become the men they endeavor to be.
I recommend this book to boys everywhere, boys youth groups and men who never had the opportunity to learn these important life lessons from their own fathers.
This book was provided to me courtesy of the publisher for review purposes.
Review by Sharel E. Gordon-Love
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Sharel Gordon-Love is a single mother of three grown sons and one adoptive daughter, and the author of When He Calls, a Christian Fiction novel. An avid reader since the age of five, Sharel has a passion for the written word and what can be done with it. Sharel finds a way to share the written word through children and women's ministries; she is a licensed Evangelist Missionary in the Church of God in Christ.
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This is the book for male high school graduates or younger boys. I really hope this book gets to the intended audience through youth groups and other organizations. Great review!
.-= Dera Williams´s last blog ..People Get Ready =-.
I remember the day my son wore a real tie for the first time. He always wore those clip ons, but he now had a real one. I as a single mom never knew how to tie one. We tired from memory, but no good. As I fought back the tears, because just like potty training, I felt like his dad needed to teach him this.
So I took him to the Boys and Girls Club and one of the coaches there taught him how to do it.
My son will be 22 next week and I am very proud of the man he has become and I am very grateful for the surrogate fathers that stepped in.
.-= Debra´s last blog ..What didn’t you do? =-.
I think would be a great book as a mothers day present and to any young man in your life. I really what to read this
.-= Debra´s last blog ..What didn’t you do? =-.
Debra, what a touching story and thank God for surrogate fathers.
I’ve recently started a boys book club in the neighborhood, and have the boys reading this book and to write a speech about their thoughts on it so they can speak on this topic at an upcoming event for the holidays. I am not a single mom anymore. I adopted my son and married a few year afterwards. My husband and I continue to place our son around other men that are also caring and refined to help us in our village of molding our son. This book is now part of our village and the village that we’ll share with a multitude of elementary age boys.
@ Jackie that’s wonderful and thanks for sharing your testimony!