Benefits of making collections for children
Sometimes we do not know how to keep our children entertained or get them to divert their interest from the video game console or television. Usually the only way to achieve this is to drag them to the street to play in a park or to point them to some sports activity. But how do we make them have fu
Sometimes we do not know how to keep our children entertained or get them to divert their interest from the video game console or television. Usually the only way to achieve this is to drag them to the street to play in a park or to point them to some sports activity. But how do we make them have fun at home? The collections suppose a different form of leisure and that can be very beneficial for children of any age. Children collectors are curious children, excited, attentive and organized and put all their interest in one or several collections of objects that will never forget.
Benefits for children to collect things There are many benefits of making collections. Any collection, whatever it may be, requires attention, organization, perseverance and a lot of interest. Children can learn many values with their collections, such as
responsibility
as they are responsible for creating, maintaining and caring for their collection. This also encourages their autonomy and enables them to start making decisions for themselves. There are collections that do not need any investment of money, but in most collections you have to spend something. In this way, children learn to save and manage money in the most convenient way. The memory
needs it to know exactly what elements its collection contains and the patience gets going when they realize that they can not get their collection overnight. Having an interest and being able to maintain it and feed it is one of the best skills we can convey to our children
. In addition, making collections promotes the sociable character of children by interacting with other children who have their own interests and practicing cooperationto exchange those objects that are missing or left over in their collections. Children collectors Making a collection is a lesson they can use in their adult life. It is not so important what they collect as the illusion they put in while they make the collection. Children can collect all kinds of things, marbles, stones, seashells, tree leaves, insects, stickers, stickers, small dolls or even toy cars. But all the collections serve the same purpose: to foster in children the
ability to get excited
. From this point of view it is very important that we encourage children to collect what they like best since they were little. It is from4 or 5 years
when the first large collections begin in the life of a child. For that age, the child is already able to have an organizational thought, to do small mathematical operations to know the state of his collection or to recognize enough words to gather information about his collectible objects. Making collections is not only a form of leisure in which children have fun
, it is a way of developing many aspects of personality, such as perfectionism, thoroughness or curiosity. It also teaches children the value of effort, of strategy and even confronts them with frustration when they do not get the object they want immediately. Laura Vélez.Editor of Guiainfantil.com
