Silly Bands

[julie*mango]

is di new favrit craze fi di girls...

gosh almighty i neva yet buy none an dem is all ova di blasted house

see dem at sarah sch an at di store today ...foolishniss

[Suesumba]

Re: Silly Bands

like what?


kids always liked silly stuff like skinnamarink, sailor moon, power rangers, ninja turtles and the like.

bet they ketch up on you and you start singing them too.

[CeaBee]

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is like rubber bands..but coloured and supposedly in shapes of different animals(?) that them wear pon them hand



even boys had it as a fad for a while.

[julie*mango]

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yes

[Gen]

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and they trade them

[julie*mango]

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Gen and CB ur kids have them?

[CeaBee]

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not any more.

bb's friend bought some for him at the school fair. (as a get well present after BB did have him accident)

dem carry them guh school and trade and what not.

them lose interest in them and dem scatter round the house.

any one me find now me dash it weh.

[julie*mango]

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lol..mi tawt it was LB

[CeaBee]

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it was the "in" thing at school for all ages.

look like the older kids lose interest in it tho'.

and as BB do, so LB follows

[Gen]

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yes skells mi buy 3 pack fi her but if she want more (mi had to walk out manhattan finally ketch dem a toysrus) she haffi use her allowance

[Gen]

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not so much foolishness fi di guy weh patent di name and own di company

[nattydreadgirl]

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Granddaughter (10yrs old), Grandson (8yrs old) this is their obsession now. They have animals, musical instruments, glow in the dark etc...About 1 month ago they only knew to get them at Walgreens...Now they have discovered that Big Lots and other places sell them, it is all the rage for them anyway.

I notice that as many boys in their circle have them as girls. Almost like my kids use to trade baseball cards and things.

[nattydreadgirl]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">not so much foolishness fi di guy weh patent di name and own di company </div></div>

OKAY, I was just thinking the other day that the person that invented them is cashing in big time.

[chitowngirl]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Silly Bandz Banned — What's a Schoolkid to Do?</span>

The Bandz are now contraband. Schools in several states, including New York, Texas, Florida and Massachusetts, have blacklisted Silly Bandz, those stretchy, colorful bracelets that are creeping up the forearms of school kids across the U.S. And starting this week, all 800-some kids at my son's elementary school in Raleigh, N.C., were commanded to leave at home their collections of rubber band–like bracelets, which retail for about $5 per pack of 24. What could possibly be so insidious about a cheap silicone bracelet?

&quot;It's a distraction,&quot; says Jill Wolborsky, a fourth-grade teacher at my son's school, who banned them from her classroom before the principal implemented a schoolwide ban. One student stole some confiscated Bandz from her desk, choosing them over the cash in her drawer.

Students fiddle with them during class and arrange swaps — trading, say, a bracelet with a mermaid for one with a dragon — when they should be concentrating on schoolwork, teachers say. Sometimes a trade goes bad — kids get buyer's remorse too — and hard feelings, maybe even scuffles, ensue.

That's what prompted Karen White, principal of Snow Rogers Elementary School in Gardendale, Ala., in October to become one of the first administrators to forbid students their Bandz. &quot;We try not to limit their freedom of expression and what they wear, but when this became a problem, I knew we had to nip it in the bud pretty quickly,&quot; says White, who has since extended an olive branch in the form of monthly Silly Bandz days.

Silly Bandz are the latest in a long list of kid-centric fads — in the tradition of Cabbage Patch Kids, Beanie Babies, Pokémon cards and Crocs. BCP Imports LLC, the small business in Toledo, Ohio, that's behind the bracelets, was not prepared for the frenzy. It's increased its workforce from 20 employees to 200 in the past year and just this week added 22 phone lines to keep up with inquiries. The company sells millions of packs a month, and Robert Croak, the president, can still hardly believe it. <span style="font-weight: bold">(He took my call after hanging up with Macy's, which is interested in creating a Silly Bandz float for its storied Thanksgiving Day parade.)</span> <span style="font-style: italic">can't you just imagine how the kids would react to them throwing 'silly bandz' from the float (as if it was candy)??</span>

Croak got inspired about three years ago at a product show in China, where a Japanese artist had devised a rubber band cute enough to escape the trash bin. Though Silly Bandz have been out for two years, they began catching on a year ago — Alabama was an early adopter, as were New Jersey and Tennessee. They're just now gaining traction in California and Texas.

&quot;They're getting banned because kids play with them so much,&quot; says Croak, who maintains they're the right product at the right time, a cost-conscious trinket in tough economic times that can even be a learning tool for little ones, kind of like flexible flash cards.

His company receives about 500 fan letters a week. One, signed by a 10-year-old named Logan Librett in New Rochelle, N.Y., and a few of his friends suggested a way to circumvent all the bothersome Silly Bandz restrictions: &quot;Some schools in New York have banned them, but we have ideas that might change that ... clear silly bands that teachers can't see and only glow in the dark.&quot;

source

[Xavier]

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My kids have them. I know they are distracting in a classroom setting but they can be an icebreaker and a cheap reward. I have seen kids with no perceived social skills break out when it comes to trading the silly bands. Also great way to learn negotiating skills...