Perhaps the author would be better off saying some kids don't need tools for kids. My son is 8, he has ADHD, he is also very into level design (Supertux) and ma

Perhaps the author would be better off saying some kids don't need tools for kids. My son is 8, he has ADHD, he is also very into level design (Supertux) and making platformers in Scratch. Instant feedback and reward is important for him. There are or were adult tools that probably would have fit - Macromedia Flash comes to mind, but a Lisp without graphics would not fly. Thinking back to my own early programming on the Commodore 64, the ability to make something flash or move or otherwise resemble a video game was very important to me as well. Some kids are interested in and motivated by math, but that hasn't been my lived experience.