My friend Dorothee came up with the best antidote for this sort of fad.
One way to make a teenager stop a certain behavior is to have adults take up that behavior.
What do you think would happen if we 30-somethings all started wearing our pants way down low at the mall? What if we started leaving our shoes unlaced and started piercing our tongues and faces?
I actually had a packet of black jelly bracelets in my hand at Spencer's in the local mall recently. For $4.95 I could share them with the other ladies on the block and disgust the local teenagers right out of this fad. Maybe next time.
Dorothee is a genius.
A Warning for Parents:
Jelly Bracelets
The meaning behind the popularity of the colorful Jelly bracelets among middle schoolers revealed.
Check your son or daughter's wrist...or the wrists of the students sitting in your classrooms. Have you noticed a harmless, colorful rubber bracelet? Well, according to an article entitled, "Parents: Brace Yourselves" (October 27, 2003) in TIME Magazine, that could be a calling card for sexual favors.
The acts range from hugging to full intercourse based on the following color code:
Yellow: hugging
Purple: kissing
Red: lap dance
Blue: oral sex
Black: the full monty
