How Rude The Teenagers Guide to Good Manners Proper Behavior and Not Grossing People Out
How Rude The Teenagers Guide to Good Manners Proper Behavior and Not Grossing People Out
Just in time to save the world from a manners meltdown, here’s an etiquette book that teens will want to read–because it keeps them laughing, doesn’t preach, and deals with issues that matter to them. Packer blends humor with sound advice as he guides readers through the world of manners from A (”Applause”) to Z (”Zits”). Full of practical tips for any occasion.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Comprehensive
This version appears to include some if not all of the content of the other, smaller volumes by this author. The advantage of this version is it has everything, and the disadvantage is it’s 465 pages long and feels heavy, almost like a textbook, or, exactly like a textbook, which may put kids off. Also, the recommendations regarding dating etiquette are pretty tame and tactfully relayed. The graphical layout is playful, relaxed and user-friendly. Certain sections present topics categorically, and other sections use questions from kids regarding how to conduct their affairs, with some interesting questions like: “What do you do when your parents are rude”, “How do I address my non-biological parent”, or “I have this friend whose mother died… she isn’t much fun to be around.” I think this book can be very helpful to kids who need ground rules. Actually, I think this book is worth it’s weight in gold.
5 Stars One of the best books out there about appropriate behavior.
I recommend this book all the time to my clients. It’s hysterically funny yet educational. It’s well organized and has great little sidebar features.
A favorite line is the last rule listed under “The Ten Commandments of Telephone Etiquette”: “Thou shalt not…beep, whistle, and pretend to be an incoming fax.”
Stephanie Moulton Sarkis PhD NCC LMHC
Author, ADHD Expert, and Psychotherapist
5 Stars Alternative Uses
I am a pediatric occupational therapist and have used this book with several kids with high functioning Autistic and Aspergers. They love it! Be advised that some information may need to sensored/tailored to each child’s knowledge level and parents’ desires regarding the sexual information. The humor used in this book is engaging for kids, and often, a lesson in itself.
2 Stars Self-Helpless?
Hmm…
I have read this thing years ago, and while comedy is tossed around in this thing, it’s probably not going to be as fantastic as most of the stuff that you typically enjoy… I can’t know for sure how you view comedy, but this thing is kind of stale even with it in there.
The thing is written from a kind of simplistic perspective, with such one-d ideas as being positive and simply turning your mind around and thinking the opposite thing… just like when you get upset for example… seem shallow and not a way to truly understand and cope with a psychological problem.
The section on sex is okay… I don’t know about other people, but this wasn’t too bad, and seemed fairly solid too, although I have seen better.
Finally, this book doesn’t just function supposedly as a guide to manners, it’s also meant, somewhat, to be a guide to life… I don’t know, if
anything like “Turn negativity to positivity” is supposed to be advice on living your life, than I don’t think that this will actually be very informative, considering that with the problems in your life, all relying
on positivity will do will be to just become a “feel good” action that won’t actually help much with the particular problem, you can’t just make these things better just by turning your mind around like that.
So, I don’t know. This book has some good parts in it, the sex chapter, which other people were concerned about, isn’t terribly bad and is fairly informative, and all in all, this is probably an okay choice, just don’t expect it to work as anything other than a way of explaining manners fairly adequately.
2 Stars Hard to relate to…
I brought this book to use with foster kids who lack social skills and basic socialization knowledge. The kids and I found this book to be unhelpful, hard to navigate, and unrealistic to the lives of the kids. Some of the dialog sounds like the author spend too much time watching the movie Clueless, making it hard to relate to. There are some good aspects of this book, but in the end i was hoping to get more use out of it than I am going to. Buy it used.
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