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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3044338, member: 66&quot;]The thing is you don&#039;t GET kids interested in coins collecting. You expose them to it, and it either takes or it doesn&#039;t. It doesn&#039;t take, there&#039;s no way to make it take. Giving them the exposure on the other hand can be fairly easy. Most younger children tend to adore their parents or grandparents, and are often eager to be able to do anything with them. Having your granddaughter with you while you work with your coins and explain them to her, and possibly even help her start a set of something will go a long way towards introducing her to the subject, and providing an emotional connection to both you and the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This will often cause at least for a short time and interest in coins and collecting. If the child after a year two seems to lose interest don&#039;t force it. It is very common for a collector to start out young, and then move away from coins. They develop other outside interests and seemed no longer have any interest at all in coins. But often later, after their careers are settled, the house is paid for, and their kids are grown, the collecting interest often returns. Look at your own experience. And once such a collector returns to the fold, they often remain a collector for 30 more years or more. This is why you don&#039;t see many young people at club meetings or coin shows. Most young people are in that in between period.&nbsp; One problem is usually when your children would be at that age where introduction would work best, the collector is also in that in between. Where he&#039;s more concerned with career, paying off the house, and raising the kids, and is not doing much of any collecting on his own. He often therefore misses the chance to expose his children to coin collecting. This is why the the hobby often skips a generation. The collector is not active when his own children are at the proper age for exposure, but he is when his grandchildren are at the right age.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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