kids collections

iremember having collections as a child, don’t you? I remember the joy I felt adding a new, sparkly rock to my rock collection. I recall my Hello Kitty sticker album where I not only collected, but arranged and categorized my stickers. While collections to us as adults might seem trivial or useless, children can benefit from starting and managing their own collections. If your children are anything like mine, they are always collecting what I think are random items. Often I’m tempted to gather up these random items and pitch them into the nearest trash can. Sometimes we parents have difficulty not squelching a child’s desire to collect, because we see clutter and space-takers that have no value. We forget that many of us did this same type of collecting as children, and we also forget what children can learn from having sentimental collections.