If you justified your child’s excessive screen time over the pandemic period as a way for them to round out their STEM education (haven’t we all?), you’ll be pleased to know there are many skill-building coding games online that will teach them core coding skills, like collaboration and visualization.
Coding games also give kids an opportunity to improve critical thinking and creative problem solving, and the latest spate of coding platforms is designed to appeal to kids with varying interests. There’s text-based coding for creating art and animation, and puzzle games instructing a robot to move crates. We think you’ll find these preferable to those endless unboxing videos they keep asking to watch on YouTube…
Better yet, unlike expensive coding camps and classes, some of these games are free (and even those with a subscription cost typically offer users a free trial period).