Letterboxing 101 For Children

Children should be taught that although it is acceptable for them to run and get the box they should not do so unless the adults present have made sure there are no non-boxing folks nearby to observe.

The child should hand the container to an adult instead of sitting down, opening it and immediately stamping the image into their logbook, failing to hand the found logbook to someone to stamp into. They should also learn that when they take the stamp image it should be done in a timely manner instead of deciding to do it again and again, while the adults are forced to simply stand there watching them with nothing to do because the child has not passed along the found logbook. Of course in retrospect, any of those adults could simply bend down and take the found logbook.

When an adult does manage to get to the found letterbox before the child, that child should not reach across in front of the adult, grabbing the found logbook or stamp away from them before they have had a chance to do ANYTHING, stamp or pass along.