Staying with the Star Wars theme… so this morning, my 14yo is grabbing his stuff for school in the other room and I hear him say, “Oh, I forgot to get the light saber out of my backpack.” Naturally, I’m like, “Wha…” And he peeks around the corner with a huge grin on his face. “Yeah, I was wearing it all last week.”

Wearing it? To school???

Bigger grin. “Yeah, until I got caught with it.”

Apparently, he thought it would be cool to start a new trend and wear a light saber on his belt. He even got several of his friends to join in on this new trend. (Yeah, I’m still shaking my head too!). He went most of the week doing this. Then one afternoon he was talking to one of the principals and, while pulling on his backpack, got it hung on the light saber which then fell to the floor. She thought it was funny, but told him he’d have to leave it at home.

I can’t decide if I am sad/embarrassed or proud/giddy that my (teenaged) child would 1) take a toy to school on a regular basis and 2) get other kids to do so as well. And let me just say, this is my *rocker* kid. He has the long (but not teased) 80s hair. A full beard (at 14) and wears a lot of rocker tees (all alternative music—the screaming kind). He’s not what you'd picture for a kid carrying a light saber—not that there’s *necessarily* a type, but…

I don’t think I have ever started a trend. Or even tried to start a trend. I love that he got the (albeit strange) idea and went for it. Are you a trendsetter? Would you get an idea like that—silly or no—and implement it? Would you follow one that your friend started? (Can’t say I’ve ever done that either)