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From what I’ve seen, (the fidget spinner) is becoming so ubiquitous that it’s overtaking the classroom and becoming a huge distraction. … To me, it’s common sense.
Perhaps your children have begged you for a fidget spinner. Elementary and middle schoolers are mad for them, and teachers are having to decide whether to allow or ban them from classrooms.
Fidget spinners were all but unheard of until April of 2017, when Google searches for the toy exploded. Google. But do they really relieve anxiety and curb ADHD, as many have claimed?
Kids love those fidget spinner toys. But are they too much of a distraction? By Erin Silver The Washington Post. Updated May 04, 2017 1:56 PM.
First there were the fidget spinners, then the squishies, then the pop toys, then the faux game controllers, bendable this-and-thats and a number of other hand-held items that my kids could ...
BOSTON — The wildly popular fidget spinners that seem to be in the hands of the half the children in the U.S. are also potentially dangerous, a consumer watchdog group warned Wednesday.
“Most kids will pull out a fidget spinner in class and are easily distracted by it, also distracting other students around them,” wrote Jade Miracle in the school’s student-run newspaper ...
The fidget spinner craze has been sweeping elementary and middle schools.As of May 17 every one of the top 10 best-selling toys on Amazon was a form of the hand-held toy people can spin and do ...
Hettinger, who began imagining the toy as early as the 1980s, initially considered a soft rock for kids to throw, but then developed the idea for the fidget spinner more than 20 years before they ...