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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1058998, member: 112&quot;]Sandy the way children react to coins is widely varied and it varies even more with what age they are at the time. I know this from my own experience when I was a child, as well as from my experience with my son. I knew from the time I was a baby that my grandfather collected coins, but the bug never bit me until I was 7. With my son, it never bit him until he was 10.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then you have to go through the life stages after that. What I mean by that is that there will come a time in the child&#039;s life when other things become more important than anything else. With most one of those stages occurs in the early teens, say 13 to 15. That&#039;s when school, sports, music, the opposite sex - something else becomes the most important thing in their lives and coins take a backseat.</p><p><br /></p><p>After that it may be a few years or it may be decades before the coin bug again resurfaces in their lives - if it ever does.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess what I&#039;m trying to say is that how you do things depends on the child. And that can only be judged by exposing the child to the coins and judging their reaction at any given time. This means that the solution to your issue is one that can easily encompass many, many years. And you may, or may not be around to do that yourself when the time comes.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what I would do is this. Enroll your children, the children&#039;s parents in your plan. Explain your desires about how you want the collection distributed to the kids, at the appropriate time in their lives. Do it yourself while you can, but makes sure they understand your wishes so that they may carry them out if the situation calls for it. That&#039;s really about the best you can do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Otherwise, if distributed at the wrong time, the coins will be discarded or sold off and forgotten with little or no thought to their meaning, their heritage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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