Dust out the old collection:

I am sure you must be cooped up at home and your child must be getting bored with nothing to help him expend all his pent-up energy. So, how do you get the child to sit at one place quietly and generate his interest in it? If you are an ardent stamp collector yourself, bring out your old stamp collection and let him look through it for a bit. Sooner or later, some specific stamps will catch his eye and he’ll get curious and start asking questions about it. Talk to him, tell him all that you know and if need be, look up to Google for the answers.

That’s exactly what I did with my eight-year-old. It was a dark rainy day when I dusted out my stamp collection comprising about eight stock albums. As he started flipping through it, he spotted one stamp from Mongolia, which had a dinosaur on it. And, he was hooked. He began asking me all kinds of questions about why the country had put the triceratops on the stamp, about the country, what kind of people lived there and so on.

Pretty soon, over the next couple of weeks, he asked me a thousand questions about different countries and different topics. Now, it has come to such a pass that I can almost never get my hands on the laptop when both of us are at home because he’s busy poring over the web, hunting out stuff on some stamp or the other.