| Model hobbies are things that children or adults can | | | | assemble yourself as well. I received a radio control |
| do which can be educational and have a lasting | | | | model airplane for Christmas one year, and had to |
| impact. One model that I had when I was younger | | | | assemble it myself. It made me feel good to |
| was the skeleton of a dinosaur. I had to put the | | | | assemble it. I felt intelligent, like I was building my |
| skeleton together myself. I also had model cars and | | | | own plane or flying machine. I have had radio control |
| model airplanes. The model cars and planes were not | | | | cars that I did not have to assemble. Once, however, |
| self assembled though, we purchased them already | | | | I did try to make my own changes to a radio control |
| completed. After building my dinosaur, I played with it | | | | car. I had just recently seen the movie "Back to the |
| like a regular toy, making it viciously attack and kill | | | | Future," how the car hit the wire at 88 miles and |
| the other toys. Later my dinosaur skeleton sat on | | | | hour when the lightning struck the tower and it sent |
| the book shelf in my bedroom for many years. | | | | the car traveling through time. I decided to try it with |
| A model toy or build it yourself model kit can be both | | | | my radio control car. I plugged the antenna of my |
| and exciting toy to play with, along with giving | | | | control into a plug socket, and drove my car toward |
| someone a sense of accomplishment. Everyone likes | | | | the antenna, so that the antenna from the car would |
| to build things, and when you are done your model | | | | hit the controls antenna, just like in "Back to Future," |
| hobby makes you feel like you have done something | | | | the car's antenna hit the wire across the road. Well, |
| constructive. It makes you feel good to know that | | | | my car did not travel through time. There was a little |
| you have built something or created something. You | | | | bit of a shock when the antennas touched, and then |
| have made a difference in the world. You are an | | | | my radio control car never really worked the same |
| inventor, a scientist, whatever you want to be. | | | | again. It started doing weird things like turning in the |
| There are many different types of models that you | | | | wrong direction from where I was turning it. It was |
| can build. I have seen model airplanes, model houses, | | | | like it got a mind of its own. It became a little |
| model cars, model animals and dinosaurs, model | | | | stubborn to, and sometimes would only go a little bit |
| helicopters, and model shuttles. Whatever you are | | | | and then stop. Like Frankenstein, I made my car |
| interested in there is probably a model for it | | | | come to life with an electrical shock. |
| somewhere. If not, you could design your own model | | | | The point is that everyone should get a model |
| from scratch. That would be a good hobby too. Just | | | | hobby. It is completely natural and healthy for |
| get some wood and start carving, get some glue and | | | | humans to experiment, try new things, and invent |
| start pasting everything together. Soon you will have | | | | things. Satisfy your curiosity or your children's |
| your invention, and feel just like the people who first | | | | curiosity with things that are constructive and |
| invented the products you are making a model of. | | | | educational rather than satisfying your curiosity with |
| There are also radio control models that you can | | | | things that might not be as helpful to one's long term |
| purchase at the store. Some of these you have to | | | | health and happiness. |