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Show Understanding HOBBIES HELP Should you encourage your child to develop hobbies? hob-bies? Experts on child-rearing say too often parents leave this fascinating facet of life up to their offspring, who may miss the opportunity opportu-nity altogether, perhaps even affecting their ability to grow intellectually and socially. Hobbies can help your children grow. Hobbies, such as photography, photo-graphy, nature study and stamp collecting offer great rewards beyond the obvious element of gratification. Take stamp collecting. For the young, it can start a simply as gathering those pretty pictures that appear on the household mail. Before Be-fore he knows it, Dad or Mom are being asked to bring home interesting stamps from the office. Friends, even clubs, arc discovered dis-covered sharing the same interest. The bounds are limitless limit-less and the educational opportunities op-portunities to study history, culture and art of other countries can serve only to widen a younster's horizons. Best of all, it's a hobby that doesn't require large investments, in-vestments, as expensive camera equipment might. To get your child on his way into a fascinating world, you might like to send $1 , plus postage for a starter kit to: American Stamp Dealers Association, Inc., MO Willis Avenue, ..p. ( Albertson, NY 1 I 507. TT |