How Rude!: The Teen Guide to Good Manners Proper Behavior and Not Grossing People Out

About Alex J. Packer

Etiquette Guru to the Youth of America Alex J. Packer Ph.D. is an educator psychologist and award-winning author of numerous books for parents and teenagers including How Rude! The Teen Guide to Good Manners Proper Behavior and Not Grossing People Out. Alex's books have been translated into many languages including Spanish German Korean Japanese Thai Mandarin Greek Romanian and Serbian. Alex is sought after by the media for his provocative commentary on manners child-rearing and substance abuse prevention and has been the subject of numerous radio television and print interviews. Alex has led workshops and lectured widely across the United States and around the world. Talks have taken him to locations as far-flung as Caracas Bangkok Buenos Aires Paris Hamburg Shanghai Bogota Beijing Tokyo and Mexico City. Numerous associations have invited Alex to speak and lead workshops at their conferences including the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE) and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). For 14 years Alex was President and CEO of FCD Educational Services. Founded in 1976 and recently acquired by Hazelden FCD is the leading nonprofit provider of onsite K-12 substance abuse prevention services for schools throughout the United States and in over 65 countries abroad. For eight years Alex was headmaster of an innovative alternative school in Washington DC for children ages 11-15. He also served as Director of Education for the Capital Children's Museum. His feature-length screenplay Digby and Fly won Grand Prize in the Massachusetts Film Office Screenwriting Competition. His proposal for an interactive family television series was optioned by Popular Arts Entertainment in Los Angeles. Alex graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds undergraduate and Master's degrees from Harvard University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. in Educational and Developmental Psychology from Boston College.