When I was 12 I asked my dad to buy me a ColecoVision to play games, but instead he bought me a Spectrum clon, which shipped with BASIC.
It wasn't until my first BASIC lecture at school that I got attracted to programming. After it I went home to try the code I had just learned.
I think you can't force him, he already has the tool... what about the lecture?
The brain is just an antenna that connects our soul in other dimension to the physical world as we know it. If you interfere the antenna, the soul is disconnected and the body works in offline mode.