It’s spreading via social media: A “dare” where kids use erasers to rub away the skin on their arms, often while reciting the alphabet or other phrases. Players compare the resulting injuries, and the ...

To borrow a line from "Twin Peaks," "it is happening again." Children around the world have recently revived the eraser challenge, a decades-old game with a new name but the same serious consequences.

Dinosaurs like the manual typewriter and its annoying correction tape have long since given way to the P.C., but as kids go back to school this fall one vestige of a simpler time has survived. The ...

The “eraser challenge” might sound like a fun schoolyard game involving a run-of-the-mill classroom supply, but its damage isn’t necessarily something that’s easily wiped away. The eraser challenge — ...