… are seeing and hearing. Plus, the spinning and movement serves as a distraction to other students in the room.
Teachers complain that kids will pull out a fidget spinner in class and are easily distracted by it, also distracting other students around them.
Critics argue that it’s just a fad as any other toy through the ages.
Toy fads are important because they represent something novel, different. An important part of childhood is gradually separating yourself from your family and becoming your own person. We can see this when middle-school children announce a taste for music that diverges from what their parents enjoy.
Do you remember one of your favorite toys growing up? I remember when I was younger, “research” identified that playing video games increased your eye-hand coordination with was supposed to be crucial before growing up. This research was coincidentally accompanied by a number of new video game systems bursting into the marketplace.
So with this new fad, only time will tell.