Suggestions for a Dad and his young son.

[M's_Fan]

I've often thought about how I could get my son into collecting one day (he's 3 and a half now).

The problem with starting the Monster is that it would be very frustrating for a kid, he could obviously never complete it until much older (and much much wealthier).

So you have to think subsets, and you could build from there. I would pick the major league team that your kid likes, and get him started on a low grade team set from the city of your son's favorite team. This is low cost, achievable in the short term, and gives a connection to modern baseball, all of which are kid friendly approaches.

Unfortunately there is no Seattle team in the T206 set, so I'll have to do T212's for my son, but I already started a 1911 T212 Seattle team set years ago and it hasn't made much progress, those cards being hard to come by (PM me if any of you have any!).

If your son is also a Braves fan, you have a similar problem as me, because the Atlanta cards are few and expensive as they are southern leaguers. So you might have to pick a different subset he might be interested in. I think the key is to pick a goal that is challenging but not too hard so they lose interest.

You might do some research to see if there is another set out there with Atlanta players that isn't as expensive. What was the first year of the Braves?

Good luck!