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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 8419683, member: 15588&quot;]&quot;Collectors are born, not made&quot; has been said many times. It seems true. And, as said above, kids will either become interested in this hobby or they won&#039;t. If they clearly aren&#039;t interested, pushing them will likely make them even less interested. They have to discover what they like and don&#039;t like for themselves. They may even become interested for a year or two and lose interest for life. Who knows? Don&#039;t worry about things that you really don&#039;t have any control over in the long term. Enjoy the hobby if you enjoy it and if others come along on the ride with you, great, but if they don&#039;t, that&#039;s really their own business.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for me, no one in my entire family had even the slightest interest in coins (they still don&#039;t), but somehow I became interested anyway. I think my interest came from pocket change, but pocket change has become a lot less interesting these days, especially considering that it exists mostly to make change. Giving a kid a quarter is almost an insult today. When my nephew was growing up, he openly preferred gift cards to cash. His father has the collector&#039;s gene, but it didn&#039;t pass on. The family has tried to interest my nephew in sports cards and other collectibles, but he still has zero interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, the coin hobby has really become an adult hobby, which is really why kids probably don&#039;t seem interested <i>en masse</i>. Sports cards have gone the same way. Not that no kids are interested (there are some younger people on this forum), but since pocket change doesn&#039;t have the power it once had and a billion other more stimulating things exist for kids these days, the best one can hope for is that they will find an interest later in life. They might or they might not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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