Pretty much if one has the collecting gene they are going to be collecting something. Unfortunately, I have it and I chose to collect vintage sports cards. My father was a big collector of early Lionel and American Flyer trains and at one point had a world class train collection. Ultimately, I think he always hoped that Rhys and I would someday come around to collect them with him but trains just never interested us in the least.
I went to the York, PA national train convention with him several times when I was younger but it was just never my hobby (also it was fairly expensive). When we started collecting baseball cards in around 1986-87 my father was okay with it and actually bought me my first prewar cards (a 33 Goudey Pepper Martin & T206 Titus) and even began collecting cards himself a bit--unfortunately it was the late eighties and early nineties so we didn't do so well on the cards we bought.
Long story short, it is impossible to make your kids collect what you do. Instill in them why you enjoy the hobby and they will choose one for themselves if they have that desire, and if you are really lucky they will like the same thing as you do.
-Rhett
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