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Doctors in China were shocked to find an elastic band growing into the flesh of a four-year-old boy's wrist. The child told his mother he had put on the band himself and had worn it for some time.

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One day while I was working at my desk, I glanced down and saw a rubber band on my wrist, just above my watch -- a reminder of a habit that I had acquired as a child and taken with me into adulthood.

Whenever you catch yourself on saying "um", simply shift the elastic band to your other wrist. This practice trains your mind to notice your use of "um", and eventually omit it.

Michael Bunnell is a Silly Bandz wearer on the weekends now. He has more than 80 of the popular shaped rubber band wrist decorations. He goes to Bear Creek Elementary School in Monument.

I have taken to using a hair claw instead, so I don’t put the elastic on my wrist." For those in the habit of wearing hair elastics around their wrist, Ms McLennan warned: “Don’t do it”.

TODAY’s Amy Robach takes a look at why stretchy rubber-band wrist bracelets, known as "Silly Bandz," are causing a stir in classrooms across the country, forcing many school administrators to ...