If your children are done bouncing at the trampoline park, have bickered for hours over the PlayStation, are bored of the pool and can’t face another round of Monopoly, it’s time to let them get ...

Scratch, at the YMCA, is an eight-week course, and as it progresses each week students learn more and more. “We plan to expand the program to other branches of the Y, as it has been so successful.

Raydar said the class is part of music’s evolution, much as his parent’s music tastes were once considered fringe. “Even when jazz came out in the ’20s, ’30s, ’40s, our parents ...