Healthy entertainment for children: Collect

By: Wild Black Crows of Nuevo Toledo in Puebla F.C.

Children can entertain themselves in various ways, like: sports, group games, crafts, excursions, etc., this important to find a way to avoid television and video games. Who does not remember having collected things in childhood?, girls, letter papers, children marbles, badges; fill out an album of figurines, have all the stickers of a promotion. An alternative entertainment is to encourage your child to collect something, the activity of collecting something, arouses the interest of children easily, this way you will have one more option to entertain yourself, in addition to providing other benefits such as:


 * Responsibility: you learn to take care and value things
 * Organization and concentration: it must be ordered and organized to control the collection
 * Savings: if the parents give an allowance to the children they must prioritize their expenses in order to acquire the objects of their collection.
 * Constancy: This benefit is the only way to be able to complete the collection.
 * Socialize: fosters contact with people, having a collection is a topic of conversation for the child either with adults or with their friends, even shy children become extroverted when talking about their collection and encourages them to have greater interpersonal relationships by having the need to exchange things with other children collectors.

The taste of collecting arises around 6 years of age, today children collect: taps, trading cards, or toys that come for the purchase of something (like a happy meal from McDonald's). Going into puberty, around 9 or 10 years old, taste can change to collections of dried leaves, insects, coins and even stamps. It is very important that your child choose what he wants to collect, and that the parents do not influence the decision, in this way the children will have all their interest in this activity.

Source: Anonymous (2007). Healthy entertainment for children: Collect. 2019, of Active Woman Website: http://www.webdelbebe.com/colegio/entretenimiento-sano-para-ninos-coleccionar.html