Step aside Pokemon Go – there's a new craze in town.
Enter the Water Bottle Challenge – and if your kids aren't yet flipping half-filled water bottles all over the place (trying to land them upright, which is what the actual challenge is all about), brace yourself, as chances are they are about to get hooked too.
The bottle flipping craze has gone viral worldwide, and parents (go figure) are slowly, but surely losing their marbles.
Why? Well, the thud-thud-thud of a bottle being flipped and landing with a crash can get rather annoying after an hour or five, let me tell you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9P2iUS2oFE
And kids are not only spending their free time trying to perfect their flipping techniques. Oh no, the craze has also entered school yards, resulting on water bottles now being banned from some schools due to the constant throwing and flipping of bottles.
At Fulston Manor School in Kent in the UK, students have now been
prohibited from carrying water bottles, causing much debate among both kids attending the school and their parents.
The trend seemed to have started in the US earlier this year, when 18-year-old Michael Senatore from North Caroline – whom The Boston Globe dubs "the Godfather of bottle flipping" – found himself without a "talent" for his high school talent show. When the day arrived, Senatore entered the stage, turned on some music and landed a half-filled plastic bottle upright on a table. And the audience – and Internet – loved it.
And as we live in such digital and viral times, youngsters around the globe are now busily perfecting the art of bottle flipping.
In fairness, if you want to look at the bright side, at least it is – finally – a trend that is 100 percent screen-free, safe and incredibly cheap. So we suggest you just invest in some ear plugs and let this one run its course...
Are your kids flipping bottles yet? What do YOU think of this latest craze, mamas? Let us know in the comments or tweet us at @Herfamilydotie 
