My oldest is a girl who spends several hours a day drawing comics so I'm not sure she would enjoy programming, bu tI do have some thoughts on the subject as a person that has taught children programming.

I find that functional languages force the user to think in a more artistic, creative way than imperative languages. It's out of the box thinking by design. The danger is that if the student is interested enough to push past the initial discomfort of being lost, you risk poisoning the well for some time (maybe forever).

Learning programming is stumbling through the woods no matter the language design, but functional languages can be more brutal.