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Hi everyone.. I’m interested to see who is all trading/collecting with their kids. Kids Age(s)? What is their interest? Looking to have some more fun .....

Not exactly with kids, but with my mom, Both of our collections are listed here and I run the online things. We both collect NASCAR (different dirvers), but I also collect basketball cards.Her and my aunt are the ones who got me into collecting 10 years ago. Now my collection has surpassed theirs and continues to grow. My age as the kid would be 21.

My 7-year-old nephew has a little non-sport collection going. Pokemon, dinosaurs, superheroes. He's also got some baseball and hockey cards, but at the moment he's definitely more into the non-sport stuff. It's been fun watching him collect and organize everything. I'm impressed with his binders!

I'd love to get my kids into collecting (I have 5) but it's too expensive. It turned into a grown-ups hobby unfortunately.  You can't even pick up cheap retail packs because obsessed grown-ups buy the entire stock.  I barely have money to support the hobby for myself. 

I am holding out hope for my youngest (4 yrs) that maybe one day I can get him into it. 

Hes not a collector yet but my six year old does like to pull out his cards and sort them and look at them. When i start rummaging through mine he usually says "do you have more for me?" I have a stash for just that reason that I grab and give to him ...dinged corners...bricked cards etc...sometimes just  a few random ones i havent sorted yet. I gave him a little two drawer card catalog box of mine to keep his in. Sometimes we pretend they are snow and he plows them around the living room! Usually its sort by color or something. 

I have a 16 year old who loves baseball and has a few cards, isnt an active collector but loves Max Scherzer and takes those if I give them to him. And i do mean if...mean old man.

My 15 year old and 25 year old (boy and girl) play Magic and have hundreds...nay thousands of those cards. I told my daughter one day when i was carrying some of my cases around that if I "ever give you a hard time about spending too much or having too many cards, just remind me of this!" 

Have 2 kids and neither collect. So I getting do it by myself. Gives me my personal time and piece and quiet

I have the opposite perspective, as I collect with my dad. I get cards for him so he can complete the sets he collected when he was a kid (1970-75 Topps), but he's not a big collector anymore. Mostly, what I do is sell some of his duplicates and buy cards he needs with the money.

I have a 12 y/o son & 8 y/o daughter who both like to collect and have actually gotten me back into the hobby. I PC Frank Thomas myself but they currently are open to all sports with no real favorites at this time. They both like Hockey Canes & Pens, Football they like Panthers/WFT, Baseball they like Braves/White Sox, Basketball they like Hornets/Grizz. When the open packs and get players from thier teams they are happy. I took them to their first card show a month ago and it was fun to watch their expressions while walking around checking everything out. I was kind of surprised that they didn't ask for everything in the place. It is fun to see them basically doing what I did right around the same age. 

My dad and I both got back into the hobby when 2 of my sons (ages 11 and 8) started to got into it. I stopped collecting around 2002 and all my old cards were in a closest and we started looking threw them. My oldest son is a set builder primarily (his first two sets he is building are 89 and 90 Topps because that's what we had a lot to get him started with) My 8yo has developed a love for father/son, brother/brother or other family dynamics baseball families (Groffeys and Ripkens being the first row because, again, that's what I had a lot of when I packed up all my stuff) It's really neat getting to share a happy with, now, three generations

My mom collects Terry Labonte, Jason Kidd and Marc-Andre Fleury cards. Since I am unable to drive she also drives me to card shows and the local stores, including, in the past, 4 hours one direction for a show in Massachusetts. Due to a fall in May of last year she's unable to get around too well anymore but hopefully she will be able to get back to them again sometime.