The No Cussing Club [Perfect Paperback]

McKay Hatch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2009

14-year-old McKay Hatch has been the target of bullying at school and intense cyberbullying as well. All because he took a stand to tell his friends, Don t Cuss. Here, in McKay s own story, see how the No Cussing Club he started at his high school caught the attention of the world and quickly grew to include more than 20,000 members in every state and more than 30 countries. Discover how McKay did it, how he persevered against severe peer pressure, how he is making a difference in thousands of people s lives and how you can too! The No Cussing Club includes examples from the thousands of e-mails McKay has received. The tons of tips and tools included make the book enjoyable, interactive and a great handbook to help teens stand up to peer pressure, handle bullying and cyberbullying, and find ways to make a difference.

Editorial Reviews

Review

McKay has courageously decided to say No to Cussing like saying No to Drugs or No to Smoking. He has prevailed. McKay has built a growing army of supporters and is cleaning up communications worldwide. I am cheering him on as you will when you read his inspired book. Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul ® --Mark Victor Hansen

McKay has courageously decided to say No to Cussing like saying No to Drugs or No to Smoking. He has prevailed. McKay has built a growing army of supporters and is cleaning up communications worldwide. I am cheering him on as you will when you read his inspired book. --Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul

McKay s story is one of courage. I met McKay in California and his story of the No Cussing Club is an inspiration to us all to never give up and to stand up for what you believe in. --Rudy Ruettiger, past football player for Notre Dame

This is a fantastic book, written by a young man who possesses a lot of courage. . . . This is an interesting read, well written in a simple and easy-to-follow style, and is loaded with anecdotes and statistics. As McKay shares a lot of stories about kids, this book is acceptable for children old enough to read it and in fact we would encourage kids to read it. We gladly award this book our Dove Family-Approved Seal. Way to go McKay! Keep up the good work. --Erwin L. Carpenter, The Dove Foundation

McKay s story is one of courage. I met McKay in California and his story of the No Cussing Club is an inspiration to us all to never give up and to stand up for what you believe in. Rudy Ruettiger, past football player for Notre Dame From the movie Rudy --Rudy Ruettiger

McKay has courageously decided to say No to Cussing like saying No to Drugs or No to Smoking. He has prevailed. McKay has built a growing army of supporters and is cleaning up communications worldwide. I am cheering him on as you will when you read his inspired book. Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul ® --Mark Victor Hansen

McKay s story is one of courage. I met McKay in California and his story of the No Cussing Club is an inspiration to us all to never give up and to stand up for what you believe in. Rudy Ruettiger, past football player for Notre Dame From the movie Rudy --Rudy Ruettiger

About the Author

McKay Hatch, now 15, grew up in South Pasadena, California, the fourth of Brent and Phelecia Hatch's seven children. McKay is active in Scouting. He plays soccer and tennis. He also loves music and likes to sing and is learning to play several instruments. He started the No Cussing Club in middle school and then started a chapter at his high school. Since then, McKay has been on television all over the world, including on CNN, the Dr. Phil Show, ABCNews, and MSNBC, as well as many other television and radio programs. He has presented workshops in several states and has been selected for the Well Done Award from The Kingdom AssignmentTM Foundation and a family-approved recognition from The Dove Foundation.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 163 pages
• Publisher: Brigham Distributing; 1 edition (January 31, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0945713088
• ISBN-13: 978-0945713081
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,598,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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80 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I lol'd. %^#W&%*!^*^Y$#%$@!!!!, June 2, 2009

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M "CultOfStrawberry" (I wait behind the wall, gnawing away at your reality) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The No Cussing Club (Perfect Paperback)

I first heard of the No Cussing club online, and read both the Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica articles (both articles are full of invaluable information, though ED is more funny) and decided to check out the club site. I am appalled at how poorly designed that site is, and the sheer cheesiness of the whole site.

This book and site are a laugh. I can understand the principle of speaking more cleanly - some people DO cuss too much, but instead of telling these kids to please stop, he had to go and create a club. In principle, it sounds silly. In practice, it's actually ludicrous. This poor kid has set himself up to be cussed at for his club - and I don't blame these people who want to cuss at him.

Cusswords exist in society for a reason. Yes, they're sometimes abused, but honestly, everything always has some people who abuse it. I'm not going to exclaim a silly or cutesy word when I cut myself with a knife. I'm going to blurt out a nice profanity that makes me feel better. Or if something really bad happens, I'll go 'OH SHI...' instead of saying 'whoops, that's bad!' or anything like that. There are certain situations where a simply-uttered profane word says it all, and it feels good to just say that word, even just to yourself when nobody's around.

You know what they say about not judging a book by its cover, right? Well, you can, for this one. Instead of a relaxed, natural pose with a friendly smile, McKay has chosen to show you his side, and his expression... it's hard to describe. It's like he's trying to pose as cool, looking down at you for cussing, and smirking at the same time. And also a pathetic attempt at 'I'm too cool to cuss'. I guess this is the best way I could describe his facial expression and pose, but he fails at that. But I know one thing that's very clear to me.

I want to punch his face. Hard. And knock that weird expression off his face. Who thought it would be a good idea to have him pose like that, instead of a welcoming/friendly smile? This is why the No Cussing Club doesn't work. The whole idea has been gone about in an entirely wrong way, and this book is just another indication of the wrongness of the whole No Cussing Club.

McKay's goal is to stop cussing, but he's only made the situation worse. Perhaps if he had gone about the campaign in a different way - trying to improve language as an whole instead of adopting a OMG ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY!!! towards swear words, he'd have better results. As an American citizen, I'm more concerned about people using bad spelling and grammar and the deterioration of the English language due to texting and chatspeak, because at work I have to deal with people who can't spell worth crud or put together coherent sentences, and talk 'ghetto'. McKay would be expending his efforts on a better cause if he tackled this issue rather than swear words. Or if he tackled the overall negativity of rap music, that'd be great too.

On top of that, he has proudly labeled himself 'The Most Cyberbullied Kid in the World' right there on the cover.

Great job, McKay. You might as well go ahead and paint a big red bulls' eye on your chest. Or face. I'll be happy to punch either. I mean, this kid had an ordinance passed in a town for no cussing, and recently he got into the news again when the TV show 'Modern Family' had a little kid say a bad word.

Only the bad word was beeped out, and during taping, the kid didn't actually say a bad word, she said 'fudge' and 'fudge' was beeped out, so it's not as if anyone was subjected to an actual bad word! The point of this episode was the parents dealing with their kid learning a bad word, something that parents in real life deal with. I will never forget my dad's reaction the first time I said a bad word. McKay completely missed the point of that episode and the lesson it was trying to convey, which is why his club (and this book) is such a danged terrible idea.

44 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The book had the opposite effect on my child, April 22, 2010

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A. Graham (Sydney) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The No Cussing Club (Perfect Paperback)

I recently purchased this book for my child to reward him for his good behaviour. He has never sworn around me or around other parents, he restricts his internet useage to educational sites that I have pre-approved (such as informative online encyclopedias), he completes all his chores without argument, be it washing the car or helping his little sister get ready for baths - he even suprises us by cooking the most delicious cakes, but after reading this book he has become unmanageable. It's like this book turned on some kind of innner demon inside of him where he refuses to do as he is told, refuses to help wash his little sister and, most suprisingly, swears over 9000 times a day (though this is probably a slight exaggeration). Me and his mother do not know what to do. We burnt the book in a tasteful wiccan ceremony but it still has his grip on him.

If anyone knows how to return him to his former-self (without all the swearing and disobedience) I'd be more than happy to hear it. We are open to potential spells, after all a spell did help to bring back our favourite dog 'Brocolli', but we don't want to cause him any further harm.

Be careful of this book. It looks innocent but looks can be deceptive.

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You guys, really?, April 24, 2010

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A. Harding "Stigma" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The No Cussing Club (Perfect Paperback)

I found this in the dollar bin and decided to get it for a good laugh. I couldn't even laugh it was that bad. You could maybe rule 34% out of this book as somewhat amusing because they're serious about how they feel that imposing their hurt feelings onto my first amendment right is AWESOME AND A-OKAY. No, sweetheart. At least 100 times I found myself putting this down and being sad for people like this. This was so not cash.

Not worth it. Not even funny. Does not write itself. Sad, self-promoting, and pretentious.