It’s easy to buy fluffy birds in eggs for the young kids in your family and a nice bottle of wine for the adults, but one tricky age group seems impossible to shop for: pre-teens and teenagers. To help you navigate how to stuff stockings and check the tweens and teens off your gifting lists, we’ve consulted with some expert middle and early high schoolers to get their 2016 picks.
Here, 11 gifts that young adults actually want:
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Indoor soccer disk
The Wet Brush
Thick yoga headbands
Lokai bracelets
If you’ve seen a tween any time in the past few months, chances are you’ve also seen one of these bracelets. They’re supposed to be all about “balance” — the black bead allegedly contains mud from the Dead Sea and the white bead is filled with water from Mt. Everest — but skip the symbolism, and they’re really just the latest must-have trend.