Posted on 10/13/2012 2:09:03 PM PDT by rhema
Last Monday night was Chick-fil-A’s annual Daddy Daughter Date Night. I took my 7 year old daughter to enjoy the chicken, waffle fries, and time together. When we arrived at our local Chick-fil-A, the tables were set with fresh flowers, pink and blue place mats, pink table cloths, and red heart-shaped balloons. The place mats were printed with conversation starters such as, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and “Describe your favorite family vacation.” Chick-fil-A’s desire to promote strong families as one of its core values is unusual in a day of what seems to be “profits at all cost” and shows how corporations can influence culture by promoting important values.
Many corporations choose to avoid issues which might be considered even slightly offensive. Most of the Fortune 500 corporations spend a large amount of energy showing how inoffensively “green” they are or describe their committed support for the non-controversial Habitat for Humanity. Occasionally, corporations are bold enough to take a position on issues that might cost them support. This is where corporations show leadership in the culture. Of course corporations don’t always lead in the right direction. Playboy’s support for legalized abortion has led to the death of millions of unborn babies. Hobby Lobby has chosen to fight for religious liberty rather than accept the HHS mandate requiring them to cover abortion-drugs to their employees. Chick-fil-A has chosen to use its resources and influence to support strong marriages and strong families. One might take that as non-controversial, but as we saw several months ago, making a statement about the limitations of marriage being established by God can earn you the label of bigot.
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I had never heard of this. Sounds very nice. Maybe they could add a Mother Son Annual Night. :) Or maybe they already do.
I’m a strong believer that you can tell a lot more about a person’s heart by what they do rather what they say.
I’m inclined to suspect that holds true for most business entities as well.
Our local Chick-fil-A is very proud of being the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified restaurant in San Jose.
I had not heard of it either. Would have gone with daughter.
I had not heard of it either. Would have gone with daughter.
There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s good business to make your places energy efficient. By doing that, they can keep their prices lower, as it reduces the cost of their overhead.
Wow - you have five daughters?
Could you repeat that again? I swear you replied once...
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Ate there again today with my daughters. Great chicken.
I never ate there once before the national Chik-Fil-A day, but I won’t pass up opportunities in the future.
You need to upgrade to a modern system, like Android. Or are you waiting for W8.
I know at least locally they do. Saw one that had a Mother/Son night listed on their event board.
One of the biggest threats to traditional marriage is that America has no effective means for polite, cross gender socialization among children.
Most dog owners know that if they raise their dog in isolation from other dogs, it will grow up mistrusting them, and maybe even see them as a threat. When it is sexually mature, it will *want* to mate, but unlike social dogs, it will not discriminate when selecting a mate. And it is just as likely to attack the other dog as it is to mate with it.
Why should children be different? Yet the vast majority of American children have no real interaction with their opposite sex peers, yet are expected to suddenly interact with them, marry one, and stay married as they have a family, as soon as they become adults.
Highly unlikely, for the simple reason that they have no idea of the opposite gender. They hardly even recognize them as being human. Boys are from Mars and girls from Venus.
But this is how Chick-fil-A could have a huge impact. By creating a social center exclusively for cross gender socialization. Boys and girls, left to their own devices will self segregate, so this has to be discouraged.
At the same time they need to do things together, whatever it is they do cannot be too distracting, because the purpose of the exercise is *not* to accomplish something, but to interact. No easy task.
Such interaction cannot be haphazard, either. It has to be consistent, yet attractive enough for boys and girls to want to go there over and over, when the opportunity presents itself.
The church I belong to has Daddy Daughter Nights, and I can remember going with my dad YEARS ago. I’m so glad they do it!
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