Devised to help kids concentrate—if your pencil’s already chewed for you, you can focus on your math lesson—these one-trick ponies seem a bit misguided. It’s a funny idea, but what kid (or adult) chews lead because he wants to make his pencil “just so.”
No, kids chew from nervous anxiety, afraid they’ll be doused in a whirlybird incident between classes, not because the pencil looks cooler that way. Check them out.

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