His laugh gets on my nerves, but I love his channel.
Teach her to spin pens…? You don’t need fancy pens for that - a pencil will do. That’s what I do in meetings to help me keep focus. (I’m nowhere near that good - I know a couple basic tricks - but that’s enough)
Some folks need to self-stimulate to be able to concentrate. People think it’s a distraction, but it’s actually what allows them to function normally. The “theraputic tool” has been eclipsed by the fad. Imgaine if everyone started, say, wearing hearing aids. Imagine the angst that would cause, espeically amongst those as need them, and suddenly find supply-and-demand has impacted their theraputic needs.
Some people just really like to annoy others. I think fidget spinners are a great tool to accomplish such. My nephew drives people crazy with those things.
You should show off your clacker skills to a random group of middle school students somewhere. By the end of the day we’ll be in the midst of a clacker renaissance! 
I think they are only popular because so many people have one.
Random thought–I remember as a child driving down the road (“passengering” down the road) seeing the occasional set of clackers that had been retired by tossing it across a power line.
Hell, I remember flubber back in the early sixties, shortly after the original movie. Apparently it was causing a rash if it was handled too much; I remember all of the kids’ hands being inspected by the school nurse and (rash or no) being asked how much they had played with the stuff (No rash and once or twice).
Back then it wasn’t dyed green and, as the picture caption says, it’s normally colorless. Well, it starts out that way but it picks up dirt until it’s this translucent, yellowy-green color. I was walking in echelon with the science teacher (Yes, I was that kind of kid) and we passed a girl playing with a gob of the stuff going the other way. “Why are you playing with snot?” the teacher asked, prompting her to drop it.
It was banned from the school, ostensibly for the rash reason but now I wonder, and died out as a fad within about three months.
It will be interesting to see when you start seeing these at close-out prices. 10 for $1 or something. There’s going to be tons of them sitting around when the fad collapses.
I saw some kids playing with a Kendall (wooden ball attached to a cup by a string). This might end up being the next big fad.
When I was in primary school, teachers would occasionally bring something interesting around from room to room to show off to the students–things I remember are a Portuguese Man-o-War in a jar and a dissected frog that had its lungs somehow inflated so that they stuck out of the chest cavity. Another thing I remember is when one of them brought around a container of mercury, and we were allowed to hold globs of it in our hands and roll it around and play with it…
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You mean a kendama? A Kendall is different annoying fad that I wish would fade away (along with the Kim, Khloe, etc.)
My kids love them. Some kid in their school bought high quality ones in bulk and sold them below retail prices but still way above cost and made like a thousand bucks. I was extremely impressed.
Do they have any use? Nah, it’s just a fad and they’ll be gone in a year.
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Pen spinning! To this day I cannot master that trick. I remember being a teacher’s aide in some class or another and there was a guy that would do it the whole hour. I could not take my eyes off him. So yeah, pretty distracting to other people (it didn’t annoy me, though).
I try to keep my hand below the table, because, yeah, it’s distracting. But I’m not there to show off, I just need to keep my hands busy. So yeah, simple tricks (that won’t fling my pen across the room if I goof), out of direct sight.
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If you’re not into showing off, the basic Figure-8 (Infinity) will probably serve your figiting needs.
I see what you did there.
Sounds more like the modern equivalent of the ruler propeller.
You know, put a ruler on the point of a pencil and spin.
So you don’t like selling things at your store? Perhaps sales shouldn’t be your field.
Try “doesn’t like customers ‘go[ing] ballistic’ at her about things she has no control over.”
I just ordered myself one like this. I used to do that thing where you walk a large coin across your knuckles, but this looks like an easier way to piss people off.
Someone mentioned these earlier in the thread, but I have been seeing them on Facebook ads for months - fidget cubes. Seems like they would be helpful for your daughter and something she can do quietly in her pocket or under her desk. Looks like there are plenty of cheap knock-offs if you don’t want to invest $19.95 plus shipping, but the knock-offs might be louder when clicked and stuff, and not as discreet as the original.