If you thought you didn’t have to worry about your kids while they were at school, think again. A new “game” is becoming popular with students at Yeshivas across the country, and it’s causing a lot of concern among parents. Known as the “eraser challenge,” it involves kids rubbing an eraser on their skin while simultaneously having to do some sort of dare or task. The concept started as a social media challenge, in which some kids will actually post videos or photos of themselves with painful marks or scars from the eraser burn.
Several schools across the country, including the example below , are urging parents to be aware of this latest social media fad.
Sheila Cohen was shocked when she found out her son’s scars were from an eraser.
“He came home with these deep cuts on the back of his hand, and it took a while to get him to tell me what he had done,” she says.
Cohen’s son had cuts on the back of his hand after playing the eraser challenge with friends. The game involves taking an eraser and rubbing it back and forth on your skin, reciting the alphabet until you get to the end.