I wonder how much of the fad is a generational thing. I would argue that the kids who are in grade school and younger today (who are too young to be millennials) are largely being raised by parents who graduated high school and went to college during the 80's. The 80's were considered to be a very happy-go-lucky, shallow, and self-centered time, and I wonder if that's a lasting legacy of how that culture affected the young people coming of age during that time.
I wonder how much of the fad is a generational thing. I would argue that the kids who are in grade school and younger today (who are too young to be millennials) are largely being raised by parents who graduated high school and went to college during the 80's. The 80's were considered to be a very happy-go-lucky, shallow, and self-centered time, and I wonder if that's a lasting legacy of how that culture affected the young people coming of age during that time.