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   Well, my experience with watching kids is two things...1) they usually   
   are NOT interested in autographs.  but if they are, if it's a kids   
   thing like Hanna Montana or High School Musical, yeah, let them get   
   what they want (or for a boy, a hero baseball player etc) 2) they   
   don't know anything about graphs and don't take care of it, so in a   
   year or so, it'll be crap, if it's not before they leave the event; so   
   best to get them to get two if possible (one to keep and one to put   
   away).  half the time our collections, or money we get from them go to   
   the kids anyway.   
      
   I remember meeting Amanda Bynes.  There were maybe three adults there   
   but the rest were kids.  I noticed kids doing things like ripping out   
   notebook paper, or if they had photos they were rolling it up and   
   playing with it, and some had DVD covers and wrote on the back...   
   little hearts and stuff like that.  They don't really know the value   
   etc. I know you're not supposed to worry about value, but even if you   
   don't care, if you ruin the item, you can't take it out and enjoy it   
   20 years later as a memory of your experience.  So it's a weird thing.   
   On one hand you want them to be kids and do what they want, but on the   
   other hand you want to watch for them.   
      
   I recently got Jack Hanna's autograph.  About 80% were kids.  I got   
   the graph for my grandbaby.  It's her very first graph.  I am making a   
   scrapbook for her.  She won't appreciate it though.  Might be 20-30   
   years old before she will!  Well of course now she's not even a year   
   old so... I am thinking ahead for the future; it's our job as adults.   
      
   On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:52:32 -0700 (PDT),   
   bigmikefootball2004@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   >that's really cool...   
   >1 rule, don't use children..the kids should be able to keep their   
   >autographs, not give them to their parent's, uncles or cousins. wives,   
   >well, it's going to both of you, so no worries anyway. but kids should   
   >only be asking for autographs for themselves, parent's shouldn't take   
   >away the experience so that they can keep it.   
   >mike   
      
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