You may have noticed one of the hottest crazes in toys right now is called the fidget spinner.
Fidget spinners are selling as fast as retailers can put them on their shelves and parents seeking them for their kids are walking into 7-11’s and other stores are finding them gone.
There is not much to a fidget spinner. It somewhat like a flat colored plastic looking flower with a center and three petals around it that you spin with your finger.
You can spin it and put it down and watch it spin for a long time. Or you can keep spinning it and hold it with your fingers or put it in your hand. Or you can just fidget with it.
The fidget spinner was invented some 20 years ago by a woman named Catherine Hettinger, described as having an inventor’s mind. But it sounds like it was more of a mother’s mind.
According to a report at Money.com, she was inspired to create a fidget spinner after seeing boys throwing rocks at people and police in Israel so that it could distract children and provide them with a soothing toy to play with.
But fidget spinners have become more than just a toy. Some therapists, counselors and teachers are said to be using fidget spinners to calm down anxious kids in school. Even parents have come to start spinning a fidget spinner when they get stressed.
That’s why adults are buying them. For themselves and not just for the kids. Having tried them out, it’s easy to understand the craze.
And with all the political arguing and bickering going on and the feeling of the increased stress that can go along with it, maybe the popularity of the fidget spinner is a sign of the fidgety times in which we live. So keep on spinning!
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