https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 21 May 2026 07:39:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2735302 Fri, 12 May 2017 10:57:38 +0000 Mrs. Pen 2735302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>lol I asked DH about this last night. He teaches 9-10th grade math. He said nearly every kid has them. He doesn't ban them from his class room because he can tell some of the kids do benefit from them. But he'll ask them to put them away if they're being too distracting or obviously not doing their work because they're fidgeting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2735278 Fri, 12 May 2017 10:35:34 +0000 808love 2735278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They are not bothering me and lots of kids at my school have them. I just don't let them play with it in class. I'm kind of hoping LO will ask for one because I really want to play with one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2735276 Fri, 12 May 2017 10:32:13 +0000 808love 2735276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coral: So true! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734974 Thu, 11 May 2017 20:38:44 +0000 Coral 2734974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p> [attach=7986/17/optgkk.600x575.FB_IMG_1494170757287.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734921 Thu, 11 May 2017 19:56:28 +0000 LemonJack 2734921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I teach middle school too and they just make me roll my eyes, because honestly most of the kids who have them don't need them. It's just a distraction. If they're quietly using it I let it be, but once it becomes a distraction it needs to be put away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734918 Thu, 11 May 2017 19:53:10 +0000 Anagram 2734918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeeeeesss, I work in a middle school, so they've been all the rage for a while now. Our school hasn't banned them--we just include it in our general classroom management. I allow them until they distract others in the class, then I have them put it in their pocket.</p> <p>It's such a minimal issue, in the long run--same with the bottle flipping and the homemade flubber this year that has been popular. I just nicely (generally, haha) ask my students to put it away if it's distracting others, and they do--problem solved. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734896 Thu, 11 May 2017 19:23:07 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2734896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I saw a kid with one at an event I was working at and he said it's just a toy. His mom didn't really seem to mind but said it was just the trendy thing of the moment.</p> <p>I can think of a lot of things to fidget with that don't require this so I don't think it's really a big deal whether schools ban them or not, personally. If the teachers don't like them, I say they go. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734894 Thu, 11 May 2017 19:19:43 +0000 Marfi 2734894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have one that my coworker 3D printed for me. I work in IT and use it mostly when I have a difficult problem that I need to concentrate on. It helps keep my mind from wandering! </p> [attach=4238/17/optcwv.450x600.d3f6cde0e0d63c8f0701b1360b496d87.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734866 Thu, 11 May 2017 19:00:10 +0000 Alba4 2734866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hate them (I teach MS). First the dabbing, then the homemade slime, now the freakin fidget spinners. Is it summer yet?! 😝 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734806 Thu, 11 May 2017 16:13:19 +0000 travellingbee 2734806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a teacher and I can't stand them. I work primarily with students with ADHD, (intervention) and they have been nothing but a distraction for those students. Maybe they work for some students, but they don't work for my ADHD students, who play with them on the table under the table on their friends heads. I don't mind a student fidgeting. I fidget myself. I don't mind a student standing, or having a special type of chair, or a squishy ball or anything like that. But a fidget spinner makes noise, attracts the attention of other students around them, and they have apparently are trading and stealing them from each other. I have asked them to not bring them to my class. If I can't get my students to focus on their reading because they are playing with the toy, and there is no point in them being in my reading group. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734801 Thu, 11 May 2017 16:08:51 +0000 Mamaof2 2734801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep my 8 yr old loves them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734756 Thu, 11 May 2017 15:28:32 +0000 Andrea 2734756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just bought them for the girls, but they can't bring them to school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734712 Thu, 11 May 2017 14:57:19 +0000 Anya 2734712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know about spinners but my husband has a fidget cube and it's seriously the most irritating thing ever, I can't stand when he uses it around me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734705 Thu, 11 May 2017 14:53:14 +0000 SugarMaple 2734705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I see so many of my students with these! They are a fad. Not every student needs a fidget. However, they are allowed in my classroom as they do work for some students. BUT, you need to have rules/guidelines for how to use them. If your fidget becomes a distraction for others (or yourself) it is gone because it is not effective. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734694 Thu, 11 May 2017 14:43:02 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 2734694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: I think those cubes look interesting! I have a lot of sensory habits. Doodling, hair pulling, and nail biting. I guess I come from a place of wishing I had some sort of way to wean off those habits that my teachers supported. They never impacted my learning but were self destructive. I went to therapy for them but treatment focused on stopping the behavior instead of redirecting. Looking back I think redirecting would have been more helpful. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734661 Thu, 11 May 2017 14:17:39 +0000 josina 2734661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just got an email from my step-daughters school yesterday (she's in 8th grade) asking parents to not send fidget spinners to school with their kids.<br /> I haven't seen them myself, other than the news stories lately, but I think the school should be allowed to make that call. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734657 Thu, 11 May 2017 14:14:08 +0000 DesertDreams88 2734657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As a teacher, I don't like them primarily because they distract many other students. </p> <p>If a student truly needs to "fidget," a fidget cube is much better. It is less noticeable / distracting, and a student can fidget with it without looking at the device. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734637 Thu, 11 May 2017 14:00:16 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 2734637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know anything about them but that sounds so typical of bad school policy. I guess in my mind the question should not be "do they distract," because everything is a distraction and all students suffer from having motivation issues, but is it a better distraction than phones, notes, chatting, roughhousing, or the other things kids do when they are bored. </p> <p>I am in no way against traditional butt-in-seat education, but when I hear stuff like that I get so annoyed because instead of leaning into a kid's natural motivation, schools so often attempt to create extrinsic rewards or use punishment. Bugs me. Just because a kid is sitting there doesn't mean he's listening and if you can tell they'd rather spin than work, that at least helps you to know as a teacher what you can do to make it more relevant to them.</p> <p>My kiddo had a stim necklace to help with his thumb sucking and it would make me so frustrated if teachers considered that a distraction </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734633 Thu, 11 May 2017 13:54:11 +0000 Eko 2734633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my co-worker got one and I tried it and kept dropping it constantly. It's a fad. I don't think it helps at all, it's more frustrating because you keep dropping it. More of a distraction. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fidget-spinners#post-2734629 Thu, 11 May 2017 13:49:28 +0000 mediagirl 2734629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It seems like these are the big thing right now in schools. I had never seen one until last night we were out at the mall having dinner and there was a boy with his dad at a table next to ours. The boy dropped that thing at least 6 times...I can see why teachers want them banned from their classrooms!</p> <p>apparently they started as ways to help kids with ADD/ADHD concentrate. Then they became mainstream popular because - distraction toy! Now some schools are banning them.</p> <p>Do you know what these are? Have you had any experience with them? </p>