Silly Bandz: Are they affecting your children? What is a “Silly Band”?
A silly band is an elastic band which is made up of silicon (non-toxic) and dye. Not a lot for something that’s sweeping the nation is it? No. They come in many different styles and shapes. They were first sold online in 2008,they became popular that same year on the east coast of the united states. Silly bandz are sold in over 8,000 retail outlets in the US. Silly bandz were created as not only a fashion trend but for educational purposes. The bandz help teach very important life lessons such as trading, and knowing when enough is enough, but to some children enough is never enough.
Is your child changing?
After this sweep of bandz, came into action children all across the nation began turning into greedy,self absorbed brats. Silly bandz are meant to be traded, but some children are keeping them and trying to get more and more, to “out do” everyone else. Parents all around the world are noticing these changes with their children, such as: greediness, the number of friends decreasing, parent calls from teachers, ect.

Why is my child getting in trouble for having silly bandz?!?
Most children use theyre bandz for bad things, most schools around the nation have banned silly bandz. Even our very own bath county middle school, I asked one of the eight graders that attend school theyre, and here what he said “Having silly bandz is not allowed here because, we were using them as sling shots, and shooting v-darts with them” “one boy even shot a silly band at a teacher, and hit her in the face” silly bandz are being used for different purposes’s but not good ones, for example, students are shooting v-darts, theyre actually flicking other students putting scars/welps on others arms. All of these actions are coming from the childs bad attitudes resulting from having silly bandz.

Should I take sillybandz away from my child completely?
I would not recommend cutting the child completely off of the bandz. I would start with just allowing them too wear a couple at a time and when they get home make sure they still have them. Also STOP supplying them, when you buy more silly bandz your just making the problem bigger.