{"id":4070,"date":"2017-10-01T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T02:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.us.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=4070"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:13:31","slug":"raising-kids-with-code","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/raising-kids-with-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising kids with code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I had a dollar for every time I wished for a clone to help me get all my work finished\u2026 well, let\u2019s just say it costs a lot more than that to raise a couple of kids.<\/p>\n<p>As a parent, an educator, and a professional WordPress developer, I\u2019ve given coding a central place in my children\u2019s curriculum. Through games, Minecraft mods, and (of course) WordPress, they\u2019re learning the basics of programming, site administration, and even entrepreneurialism. They\u2019re not ready to take over my job (yet), but they have a great head start toward a future where programming skills pervade nearly every career.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at some of the approaches, tools, and communities available to us as parents and educators. Our children will grow up to face a new kind of digital economy. We can help them learn the skills they need to thriv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had a dollar for every time I wished for a clone to help me get all my work finished\u2026 well, let\u2019s just say it costs a lot more than that to raise a couple of kids. As a parent, an educator, and a professional WordPress developer, I\u2019ve given coding a central place in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/raising-kids-with-code\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raising kids with code&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1512236700,"_wcpt_session_duration":2700,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[4462],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[1106618],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-4070","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-guitar"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aOEk-13E","session_date_time":{"date":"December 2, 2017","time":"11:45 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"4462","slug":"jonathan-brinley","name":"Jonathan Brinley","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/jonathan-brinley\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4464,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4070\/revisions\/4464"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4462"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/jbrinley"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}