Son got through Scratch book and then got bored. Has not been interested at all in programming after that. Daughter did some scratch and some web programming a

Son got through Scratch book and then got bored. Has not been interested at all in programming after that. Daughter did some scratch and some web programming and then got bored. Lego Mindstorms - son built through the robots that were included and then got bored. Hour of code (both) - did some basic exercises and then got bored. Both love to build stuff in Minecraft and enjoy making quite elaborate machines there (elaborate in the context of Minecraft). Both are doing fairly well in school. Programming just does not seem to be intrinsically interesting to them. And that's just fine. Basic language skills and math is far more important for professionals when they get to workforce rather than low level tinkering in the general context. If they don't show inbuilt desire to program I don't see any reason why I should push them there. I started programming only after turning 20 and have a pretty good career at it. If you love programming it's never too late to start :)