Usually the children involved have parents also who are collectors.  So that
means parents already have books.....our shell club has a great library that
is available to all our members.
 
As far as shell collecting trips (all our vacation revolve around shell
collecting) so that means the whole family gets to go.
 
It usually takes parents or grandparents to encourage the young shell
collectors.
 
Nabih S Abdelhamid wrote:
 
> Another aspect hindering youth to be involved in shell collecting (and
> most other hobbies) is the financial burden related to his/her activity.
> As most of us adult shell collectors well know we have to pay for many
> facets of out activities: trips to collect, expensive books and
> difficulty to obtain specialized litterature, clubs and magazines,
> material for arranging the collection, etc...  Besides the collector
> must have a comprehending family understanding the intellectual needs of
> the collector in spending such amount of money.
>
> So, unless this passion is transmitted to the children, in which case
> they would start with a  well developped capital I think that most young
> persons will refrain from being advanced collectors.  Perhaps we could
> still interest them to be moderate collectors, gathering from time to
> time some shells ion the beach or induce them to gain some money by
> collecting empty shells on the beach and creating artistical objects
> they would sell with a profit.
>
> Thank you
> Nabih
 
--
Jim and Bobbi Cordy
of Merritt Island, Florida.
 
Jim Specializes in Self-Collected
Caribbean & Florida Shells
 
Bobbi in Shell Creations