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Perhaps children aged 6 should be focused on reading and writing

...and given a Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum to play with, along with a few volumes of documentation. ;-)

I found its spiritual predecessors, the Turtle and the Roamer, and the programming language LOGO, to be helpful in learning maths and programming at an early age. I then moved to BASIC. Then Pascal, then Delphi.

YMMV, but ask geeks who grew up in the UK during the late eighties and early nineties and see what their opinion is.

Maybe it's less important now that things like Minecraft are so much more immersive than the tools we had "back in the day", but I wouldn't discount it so easily.

I doubt parents rich enough to afford this are overstretch. It doesn't seems especially useful though.