Fantastic Bensmom, we really appreciate it, and Rafael will too :)

A local boy, here in Melbourne, Australia, is suffering with cancer and has a birthday wish. Rafael is turning 10 in a few weeks, and he would love to receive lots of cards for his birthday. If anyone would like to help his dream come true, please send cards to Rafael @ PO Box 1617, Werribee, 3030, Australia. You can have a look at the cards my boys have made for Rafael, http://airskull.com/rafaels-birthday-wish/ Thanks!

This week we tell you about JavaScript: http://airskull.com/learn-to-code-javascript/

My 14 year old son... none, but my 12 year old boy is starting to notice girls.

For the people that don't understand what coding/programming is, my husband wrote a post to try to explain it: http://airskull.com/learning-to-code-but-first-what-is-programming/ I hope you find it useful :)

Haha, I took my chances!!! Thanks for the link :)

I was wondering lovemykids, haha!! Good to know!

Here is the second part of the series of posts my husband is writing, http://airskull.com/learning-to-code-with-scratch/. It's a look at Scratch for the novice.

Do keep at it!! The set up is often the hardest part, when you let you children lose on it you might see a big change :) Fingers Crossed!

Thanks JadeOrchidSong, that is really cool. I will show my kids tomorrow.

We looked at Kodable, free version, and didn't think it was worth the spend for the full version, but I would love to hear how you go with it. Craft Computer looks interesting!

I thought you guys might like to see a short video my son made, he is writing a review of Scratch:

JadeOrchidSong, great post, and I love Banana War ;) I agree with everything you have said. Scratch is a great place to start. As a parent you DO NOT need to be a coder, it is easy, but educational. My youngest has been using it since he was 8, totally independently, along with the book http://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Programming-Adventure-Covers-Version/dp/1593275315/ref=dp_ob_title_bk (new version of what we have). Form Scratch there are so many avenues to take, my hubby will write a bit on our blog about our choices, but it is great to see all of these choices I hadn't heard about. There is no one right way to learn to code. Thanks for the ling to Processing (http://processing.org/), It looks great! lprstn, thanks for that list, more resources to check out!

I love looking at their projects too, seeing their imaginations come to life in a game, or some code. And you're welcome :)

domestic_engineer, that is how my older two started, but my younger two started with Scratch. We didn't know about Scratch when the older two started programming, if we did I think they would have started there. The Scratch language is a purpose built language to teach kids to code, an easy introduction to programming concepts if you like. It has a game look and feel which kids like. We started on Khan academy because they'd already been using that for maths when they introduced their programming section. HTH Edit to add: I moved the order in the post to reflect how we would use them, thanks for pointing that out domestic_engineer!

lovemykids, sure, here it is http://airskull.com/coding-for-kids/

My husband is writing a series of posts about how and why we are teacing coding to our kids. I am posting it here if anyone is looking at starting code with their kids, or is looking for something to do after the basics. Coding for Kids

My older boys loved The Eagle of the Ninth, and went on to read The Silver Branch (Roman Britain Trilogy) and The Lantern Bearers (Roman Britain Trilogy)

Haha, great minds caitlinsmom! I got a little obsessed with traffic after Jessica's first post about stats, but I'm over it now.... till next time ;)

You may be interested in Balancing Everything's January traffic income report. They are a homeschooling family, but Mum works and Dad schools, and the blog isn't strictly a homeschool one. It might interest you to see how much traffic she gets and how much she makes. She has previous months up too.

Thanks fo those links dereksurfs! My son took Bloomfield's How Things Work on Coursera last year, and it remains one of his favorite courses to date. He has been hoping that Coursera would release How Things Work 2, but so far no joy. I will show him these links tonight :)

Just saw it, and we LOVED the movie, but we are movie buffs!! My boys were miffed at the love thing going on, but they loved the action sequences. You can read what we thought here, on our blog if you are interested :)

If the layout is the only problem you can print it with more white space. I have read here where some ladies were doing that because it was too busy for their kids. Worth a shot if he doesn't like the layout.

We are doing Math Mammoth with Life of Fred, but LOF is the supplement and MM is the main.

Thanks Chris! Hope you entered?