How Rude!: The Teenagers’ Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Out
- ISBN13: 9781575420240
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Groundbreaking New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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.
How Rude!: The Teenagers’ Guide to Excellent Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Out
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this book teaches kids how to be civillized, non-threatening, subservients to protocol. it puts children at a “lesser status”—-then it says “Please don’t have a fit about this status thing. It doesn’t mean that royals are better than commoners, women are better than men, or adults are better than children. It’s just the way things are done.” (so much for social change in this country!) other examples from the book: Why do you have to be nice to ignorant jerks?–because you never know when one of them might be a Hollywood talent agent. (talk about a warped sense of the world) listed under the commandments of classroom etiquette for students: thou shalt not act bored or fall asleep in class(that’s not acting) perhaps i am too sharp but it seems to me that this “amusing” book is not so “amusing” afterall.
Rating: 1 / 5
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 delight in… 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 thoughts 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 know and cope with a psychological problem.
The section on sex is okay… I don’t know about other people, but this wasn’t too terrible, and seemed honestly 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 reckon that this will really be very informative, considering that with the problems in your life, all relying
on positivity will do will be to just become a “feel excellent” action that won’t really 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 excellent parts in it, the sex chapter, which other people were concerned about, isn’t terribly terrible and is honestly 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 honestly adequately.
Rating: 2 / 5
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 excellent 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.
Rating: 2 / 5
A fantastic book for teens. It answers tough questions on friends, family, and school. It teaches excellent manners and proper behavior and has many fantastic tales. Altough it was very basic.
Rating: 4 / 5
..who need a small help with their manners.
Written in a simple and simple to know format, it instantly grabs your attention and holds you. Depending on the teen, it may or may not make a difference.
In severe cases of ‘fashion disasters’ and ‘that punk rock look’ not to mention ‘pig manners’ this book may not help much. Teens who pierce themselves repeatedly and die their hair to look like a Easter egg will probably not benifit much from this book.
On the other hand, teens who are activly interested in changing their behavior could very well get a wealth of use out of this book! =)
Rating: 3 / 5