Let Kids Be Kids: When Collectibles Lose Their Playfulness

## Card Collecting There’s something unsettling about watching a child flip through a Pokémon card collection, only to see each card reduced to a dollar amount scribbled on a Post-it note attached to the sleeve of that card. The magic of those cards, the strategy of building a deck and the joy of battling friends seems to vanish when the only metric that matters is market value. Of course, the