Let your kids bang away at the computer and have loads of fun!!! Check out this neat game in WPF - Baby Smash - by Scott Hanselman. Just ensure you get your computer back :-) http://www.hanselman.com/babysmash/index.htm
Check out the Dobbs Challenge and you could win $10000 just for creating cool games!!! http://dobbschallenge.com/
Take a look at this humorous Forrester blog about what programming language the next president would use if they were an application developer! Have fun!!! http://blogs.forrester.com/appdev/2008/02/presidential-pr.html