The best time to get a child interested in a hobby is when he or she is still young.
By captivating curious minds with something educational, there is a very good chance that they will become responsible adults.
Some parents introduce their child about how to cook or bake at a young age.
If the child enjoys and succeeds in baking their first cake or making breakfast for their parents, the child learns responsibilities.
Introducing a child to a hobby can also teach that child how to stay focused or want to learn more about a certain subject.
A great example of this is starting a coin collection.
For most adults, coins are just petty pocket change.
Adults grow accustomed to shelling out change to buy a newspaper or pay for a ride on the subway.
For children, coins are much more than that.
It's common for some children to save coins put in their piggy bank to buy something special or save the money to put toward their future college tuition.
To start a coin collection, the parent and child can start by examining the piggy banks contents and examine the coins together.
Parents can explain to children how coins were manufactured during different years and each has its own history.
By explaining the significance of each, the child's interest will grow and in turn will encourage the growth of the coin collection.
Both the parent and child might even get lucky if they should find a coin that has missing letters or numbers or a misprint is visible on the coin.
Since such things don't happen very often, the value of the coin is much higher than the original face value.
Coins that are part of a collection should be kept inside a small box, separated from other coins used for savings.
When the collection grows larger, then it is time to buy a plastic folder to store the coins.
There are basically two kinds of folders to for storing and displaying coin collections: the first can holds individual coins and the other is a sheet which holds a number of coins per page.
By using folders, the child can take the collection to school for "show and tell".
Coin collections also improve the child's self-confidence in successfully achieving something on his or her own without the help of the parents.
Coins can teach children about saving for a special purchase or project, encouraging the child to work hard to achieve that goal without always asking to borrow money their parents.
Coin collecting started in a child's early years will pay off later in life by teaching responsibility.