| I sincerely doubt it. One of the more underexamined consequences of computers being so ubiquitous and widespread is how it's affected child rearing. Any parent or anyone who works with children knows one of the most important parts of child rearing is socialization. It's imperative that your child gets along with other children, always has been. Today, with children being given access to social media, that means that your child too will have to be given access to social media in order to fit in. The reason being that this is what kids will talk about amongst each other primarily, it will constitute much of their interests early in life. The problem of course with this mandatory exposure is that it's vampiric. The odds of getting a kid into 6502 assembly after they've been exposed to the monoamine explosion of trite garbage like TikTok may as well be an impossibility. Deprive them of that explosion... they'll probably not have a good time with their peers. Social ostracization will harm their personal development, and they will experience it if they can't yap about the latest memes with the other snotlings. They'll grow to resent you for making them the weirdo with nil cultural knowledge. It's a rather worrisome situation, honestly. The best route to getting kids into programming, in my opinion, is through Roblox or making Fortnite custom maps. It's stuff they can share with their friends in a medium that they'll enjoy and think is cool. It fits in with their cultural motions. If you do a good job of encouraging their experiences doing so and instilling a hunger for more and deeper knowledge, eventually they'll move on to greater horizons. I say this as someone that's absolutely loathe to do any of this. I would want to raise my child on Plan 9. Teach them how to write 6502, how to write lua, how to write C. But it's just not how the world works anymore. |