Your Child Doesn’t Need Coding Class—They Need Better Toys

What if the toys your child plays with today shape how they think forever? 

Every day, well-meaning parents invest in coding classes and STEM kits, hoping to “future-proof” their kids. The irony? Most of these tools teach surface-level skills—while overlooking what truly matters in the age of AI: creativity, emotional resilience, ethical decision-making, and the ability to explore open-ended possibilities.

Here’s the hidden problem: many modern toys come with lights, voices, and preloaded instructions. They entertain—but they don't prompt to build. Worse, they replace curiosity with compliance. And early coding? It often drills patterns without teaching how to think from first principles. Did you just buy a coding kit that gives step by step instructions without prompting any decisions to create something of your own?

Now imagine the opposite: Toys with limitless permutations. Materials that never “finish” a game. Games that ask moral questions. Tools that let children invent, revise, and imagine without bounds. These enable divergent thinking, emotional vocabulary, pattern-building, and ethical reflection.

Want to raise a child who adapts, questions, and creates—not just one who follows instructions? Then create possibilities for them to explore and build some thing. It could be as easy as creating simple patterns from magnetic tiles, tangram puzzles, build-your-own world kits, story cubes, cooperative board games, and emotion storytelling cards. But please don't give them toys and screens where they only consume information. Lay the right foundation of creativity and ethics by choosing wisely what they play with and or what kind of class they attend.