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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;joesmom, post: 14668, member: 934&quot;]This topic may have already been covered but I was kind of curious as to whether or not any of your kids are interested in coin collecting with you?&nbsp; What excites them?&nbsp; Are their interests the same as yours?</p><p><br /></p><p>Joe is 6 and already hooked.&nbsp; He has his own little coin wallet that holds 60 flips and may need to expand to a 2nd book soon.&nbsp; He enjoys going to shows with me and getting the freebies to add to his book, as well as picking out a few purchases to add to his own collection.&nbsp; He knows that when he&#039;s older, my whole collection will one day be his.&nbsp; For now his biggest thrills are errors, hunting through rolls and filling his folders and random world coins (A novice darksider for ya GDJMSP&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; ).&nbsp; Anything odd or out of the ordinary catches his eye like square coins and anything with holes in it...hence the interest in world coins.&nbsp; At least 3 or 4 times a week he asks me to sit down with him and go through all of our coin books.&nbsp; Other times he just takes them out himself and enjoys the quiet time studying them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m so happy that he shares this interest with me and can only hope that it continues, it seems that nowadays there are so few things that parents and children can share an interest in.&nbsp; It has really created a wonderful connection with us and opened up many discussions.&nbsp; For example, he knows that the base of our collection came from my father who passed away in December.&nbsp; He was moved to learn that grandpa wanted me to have the coins to take care of and add to until the time came for it to be Joe&#039;s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the lessons to be learned in numismatics are plentiful.&nbsp; Joe has learned to be grateful of someone&#039;s generosity and thoughtful in return.&nbsp; He has often said that he wishes he could give grandpa one of his prized square coins in return for all of the goodies he left him.&nbsp; As another example, a girl at our local bank came back from vacation in Mexico &amp; brought Joe some pesos.&nbsp; Now, we already had plenty of those, but Joe said &quot;That was so thoughtful of her, I can&#039;t believe she was on vacation and thought of ME&quot;.&nbsp; How many 6 year olds grasp that kind of concept?&nbsp; He came home that very day, painstakingly wrote out a thank you note for her and asked me to take him back to the bank so he could give it to her along with a pretty Jamaican coin in a flip that he signed his name on for her.&nbsp; It has also taught him just how big this world is.&nbsp; We took out all of his world coins the other day and sat down with a globe...finding all of the countries that they came from.&nbsp; The look of wonder and amazement in his eyes was priceless.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Joe tends to think much deeper than a normal 6 year old.&nbsp; He was sad when grandpa went to heaven but managed to find a bright side in it...I was sorting though my Dad&#039;s coins and was spending a particular afternoon digging through a huge jar of wheaties.&nbsp; He came up to me and said that he was sad grandpa was gone but is happy to think that he&#039;ll finally meet the man on all of the pennies he collected.&nbsp; Needless to say I was floored and ran for the kleenex.&nbsp; Next I imagine we&#039;ll move on to the history aspect, but for now I try to let him enjoy it all at his own pace.&nbsp; I believe he has already gotten more out of this great hobby than most adults I know will ever learn in a lifetime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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