Kids learn by imitating, which is fine when it comes to tying their shoelaces or sweeping the floor but, if you have a budding photographer in your brood, you probably don’t want to hand over your expensive DSLR and let them learn to take pictures by trial and error on it. And kids love to take pictures, so they’re going to be you’re going to have to resist a lot of pestering to keep their hands off it. The perfect solution is to buy a camera designed for kids and let them click away happily while they learn what works and what doesn’t without putting your own precious camera at risk.
This is absolutely the best way to learn some photography skills and the sooner kids picks up a camera and starts shooting, the sooner they’re going to be taking good pictures. There are plenty of inexpensive cameras designed especially for kids on the market today and it’s easy to find a suitable one. If your child is a little older or seems to have a serious interest in photography, then it may be worth buying one of the sturdier models of digital camera around and sparing them the limitation of these cameras made especially for kids because most of them are pretty poor in quality.
One of the most important things about a camera for kids is that it encourages creativity. The camera is something that a kid can carry with them everywhere they go and gives them a way to interpret the world around them. The more kids can be encouraged to make their own pictures of the world and communicate their own attitude to the things they see every day, the more they learn that life is not just about imitation. Once they develop some confidence in their own ability to present their own images of the things and people and around them, they will quickly develop the skills to talk about and describe the world in their own personal terms.
If a child is showing a serious interest in the visual aspects of life and is always curious and giving ideas when you’re using your own camera, then it’s important to develop that interest by giving them the chance to choose their own photographic subjects and the way they shoot them. And that’s not something they’re going to learn by you occasionally letting them take a shot with your camera and showing them exactly how to do it.
But there’s one even more practical reason for your kid to have a camera. There’s nothing more frustrating than being the only photographer in a family, especially if you’re away on a family holiday.Except you. Because you’ve been stuck behind the camera the whole time. Buy your kid a camera and pretty soon you’ll be appearing in all those family holiday shots yourself.
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