{"id":9316,"date":"2020-01-14T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2025-07-17T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:13:08","slug":"should-you-teach-your-child-how-to-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/should-you-teach-your-child-how-to-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you teach your child how to code?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t help but notice fads when they sail in\u2026things are going along smoothly, and then WHAM! You\u2019re already not in the \u201cIN\u201d crowd because you\u2019re not doing \u201cTHE NEW THING\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This one has me concerned \u2013 more than concerned. It\u2019s about pushing kids to learn how to code.<\/p>\n<p>There are all kinds of classes today teaching kids how to build websites, make apps, and code in a specific language.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really easy to see the arguments for this \u2013 I mean, in an automated future where software is everywhere, and software engineers and programmers will surely always be in demand, it makes sense why parents are pushing to educate their child in programming.<\/p>\n<p>Or are they?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Should you teach your child how to code? Supercharged Science Aurora Lipper\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/edUThxnV1Uc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t help but notice fads when they sail in\u2026things are going along smoothly, and then WHAM! You\u2019re already not in the \u201cIN\u201d crowd because you\u2019re not doing \u201cTHE NEW THING\u201d. This one has me concerned \u2013 more than concerned. It\u2019s about pushing kids to learn how to code. There are all kinds of classes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homeschool-science-curriculum-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12779,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions\/12779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}