Oh, young love.One North Carolina woman recently issued a mock public service announcement on Facebook for the mothers of middle school girls across the country, hilariously explaining why hair scrunchies are the “secret” new sign of budding romance among tweens and young teens.Emily Covington said that she couldn’t figure out why the fabric-covered hair tie bands had been inexplicably scattered all over her house since her son returned to school, Good Morning America reports.”One week there were all these scrunchies in the dryer. The first batch, I didn’t think anything of and tossed them in the trash thinking it was a fluke or maybe even mine that I forgot,” Covington told the outlet.MOM’S FUNNY BEDTIME TRICK FOR CALMING DOWN HER KIDS GOES VIRAL: ‘I’M NOT EVEN SORRY’When it happened again, she pressed her son for answers.In reply, the youngster told his mom that scrunchies are the cool new sign of affection at his school. Girls give the hair bands to their crushes, who proudly wear them on their wrists as an accessory.Taken aback, Covington hopped on Facebook to jokingly spread the word, sharing a photo of a scrunchie stash her child had accumulated last week.“PSA to ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRL MOMS! Are you tired of wasting money on hair scrunchies? Feel like you’re buying them every week? Wondering why your daughter can’t keep up with them?” she wrote on Sept. 25.WOMAN’S SIMPLE FRIDGE HACK GOES VIRAL
Read More
Fox News
Fox News
Mom’s viral Facebook post explains why hair scrunchies are ‘secret’ sign of middle school romance
October 5, 2019 by
