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by gregjor 1621 days ago
Reframe your approach: How do you encourage your son to learn programming and stay curious and motivated? You can't teach anyone unless they have the motivation and interest to learn. Kids have lots of natural curiosity so you need to take advantage of that. You need to keep the interest going with challenges and successes.

Do the simplest possible thing to get your son interested in anything remotely like programming. The other comments have some good suggestions. With some success at simple things like animated robots and Minecraft and Mindstorms your son may decide to keep digging into programming.

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How do you encourage your son to learn programming

Unnecessary. A nine-year-old boy is as likely to refuse influence over Roblox as a junkie would heroin.