This article is from the New york Times about Hadi Partovi. He is the founder of Code.org and Hour of Code. We highly recommend parents to read this article.
Code.org is one of our favorite coding environments for children to learn coding and computational thinking. Children learn coding and computational thinking, but also code.org allows them to create, make, design so many projects in computer science education. We recommend the free, powerful Code.org environment for parents and their children.