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I raised 3 daughters, now in their 30s. None were interested in programming, but all 3 married IT guys. 
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They always say a daughter finds a husband like her dad!
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I started programming when I was 8 
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NERD! 
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My first program ever (Basic, Amstrad 6128) was a small database named "Cave à vin", for my father, to keep track of the bottles of wine in our cellar (all 25 of them  ). If that's not French ...  It had an opening splash screen with a bottle of wine filling an empty glass, animated. Which was about 85% of the code. 
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Rage wrote: splash screen with a bottle of wine filling an empty glass
For a splash screen it shouldn't have all ended up in the glass.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I am impressed! THats pretty good for an 8 year old.
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Quite a few games for kids are programming, even though not done typing programming language statements into vi on a linux machine.
I really dislike that "learning programming" idea. What you should learn is "methodologies for problem solving". That is "programming without Linux or vi". And you see that in a lot of children's games. I have no worries about emphasizing that aspect in children's activities.
An old example: My bookshelf holds a 1950s book for boys: A forest manager and his two sons, attacking the problem of how to build a cabin out in the woods - the planning of the entire operation, getting the materials, transport, and setting it up. Is is wrapped up in so much nature and forest, watching animals, fighting with the rowboat... A ten year old will read it as a wildlife adventure story. Without noticing, he will also learn a lot about how to approach a large problem, how to solve it.
I didn't read the book myself until I read it to a nine year old daughter (she's visually handicapped; that's why I read it to her), and she loved both aspects of it. And I learned a lot about how to build a cabin!
You can take a similar approach in a lot of familiy activities, such as planning a long and varied vacation, bringing the kids in on the family budget (exception handlers come in as a natural concept) and so on. Any sort of strategy games.
Almost all kids are into such activities, never thinking of the methodologies and strategies. What you could do is to draw the attention of your kids to these aspects so they become aware of them. While discussing the family budget, you bring in the "what ifs" and exception handling (obviously not calling it "exception hanlding").
This way, the kids can continue being kids, doing kids' activities, but maybe more aware of methodologies than their playmates.
(I just re-read good old "Tom Sawyer" - that is a kid who can develop a program for the activities of the kids in his gang!)
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u can get them a ps4 or xbox and let them play games...or give them their own computers with VR sets .... i'm sure they will love it...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I got this a few weeks ago: Homepage | Minecraft: Education Edition[^]
To be honest didn't checked yet...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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If they survive x86 assembly, they will be ready for the real wörld!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I recommend checking out Zachtronics' puzzle games, they're very much programming in disguise. I'd start with Infinifactory as it's learning curve is the least steep. They're all hard and great fun.
Depending on the kids' history with games and computers they might get into the harder ones (like Shenzhen I/O and TIS100).
Here's an article on this [^]
But keep in mind - quote :
Sometimes people mention SpaceChem as a good game to introduce people to programming. I would not recommend that at all because an introductory programming course is laughably easy in comparison. If anything, it is a game you may want to introduce a subset of programmers to.
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Maybe in a few years. 
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If you have an old android phone or tablet (rooted Nook?) lying around, check out MIT App Inventor.
Similar paradigm to Scratch, but you can run your own apps on your phone/tablet.
iOS version in beta!
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Don't know what level they are at, but my son uses this at school (and has done Scratch too):
https://www.khanacademy.org/
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There appear to be some Chinese spam bots spewing article submissions. Click that report button.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done and done!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Wow, when I posted this about an hour ago there were fifteen articles waiting, fourteen of which were the same spam. Since that time, fifteen more have popped up. Yikes.
Curiously, they are from a different batch of users now.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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and don't forget to report the spammers too 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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... Samsung letting a designer go on stage with a 43" vertical TV that costs $16k because millennials
Words fail me.
(and if I posted enough giant vomit's to express my disdain - a few thousand might do - I'd deserve the LARTing Maunder would hand out for breaking the page.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Samsung should market this as the Classical TV, the target market being those who want to watch TV while reclining at their Roman-style banquets.
An optional extra would be a fiddle. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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