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Kids Contests: Where a Kid Can Be A Kid, Creatively

By: Erin Petersville

Summertime, and thoughts turn to video games, staying indoors in rooms behind closed doors, with the lights out, curtains drawn, half-eaten cereal bowls with milk who knows how old, souring under the bed. With any luck, the bed will be partially made, and maybe, just maybe, your kids will get out of their pajamas and into some halfway decent clothes. Not a pretty picture, is it? If you want to avoid this parents' nightmare, I suggest looking seriously into kids contests, both the online versions, and the real world versions.

With technological advances, it is pretty much certain that if a family has video games in the house, they should also have a digital camera. Kids should be encouraged to use these things to take pictures of the world around them, and go online to enter them into children photography contests. This would include taking pictures on family vacations, a day at the beach or swimming pool, trips to the park, or just hanging out with their friends. It'll teach them to look more closely at the world around them, and to realize there is life outside a video game console.

Picture contests are similar to photography contests, but instead of using a digital camera or cell phone to take pictures of the world around them, kids would take pen or paint or pencil to paper to draw their interpretation of the world around them, expressing themselves as only they know how. The pictures could then be scanned into the computer and uploaded to online picture contests.

Then there are the other numerous kids contests online. A quick search of Google even revealed one of my personal favorites: an online contest where kids wrote an essay detailing their imaginary adventures in far away lands. What better way to teach them about geography and culture than this? Who knows, your kids might find they enjoy writing and another author is born. My writing career began in a similar way.

Another avenue worth pursuing to help your kids avoid getting into trouble over the summer break that doesn't involve the internet is to visit your local bookstore and look for a contest magazine specializing in any area of interest to your child. Many magazines, including photography magazines, often hold contests design specifically for children.

There are still cute baby contests you could enter your baby into. Hopefully your cute baby is not addicted to video games yet, so it is not too late to steer the little angel away from these activities and to teach him or her that there are a lot more fun summertime activities. Win a few of these cute baby contests, and you won't have to deal with addictive video game playing, but you will have to work through the self-absorbing attitude that may result.

If you are worried that the internet is just as addictive, just as bad as video game consoles, think of it as an outlet to their creativity. Find contests online that cater to the old-fashioned talents, like writing and drawing. There might even be contests involving acting and drama. The world wide web is open to all kinds of these contests.

So, do not cast aside the possibilities which exist with kids contests. Getting your kids to interact with the world around them in creative ways, teaches them to respect and hold the world in awe. Video games don't hold a candle to this type of imagination.

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