I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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If you introduce the kids early, they don't have any pre-conceived views of what it "should" be like.
In my case, the kids learned Linux first and got familiar with it for a few years before they were introduced to computers in school
I also kept comments general. Instead of making a "Word" or "Writer" document, it was making a document with a "Word Processor".
Raspbian may be the "recommended" for the Raspberry Pi but as most Linux users know, there are choices, and there is nothing wrong with going with the non-recommended or non-default (like using Fedora & KDE, or openSUSE & Xfce).
I think the XBMC-focused OpenELEC and RaspBMC are probably the next most popular. Don't forget there is also Pidora (Fedora) and Arch available. And these are just the ones included in NOOBS. I think openSUSE also has a version even though it isn't included in NOOBS.