It used to be the only way to find guitar lessons for kids was to either go to the library or music store and buy and buy a book that normally could not hold children's attention long enough for them to learn very much.
The other alternative was to pay a private music teacher to teach them how to play guitar.
The issue with this is obviously the cost and the fact that if a child does not retain the information you certainly do not want to keep paying that teacher to come back to the house.
The great thing about the internet is you can now find guitar lessons for kids that offer interactive training that will help to keep them focused because it uses technology they are familiar with and it seems less like studying when they can do it online.
These new guitar instructions for kids can also be much more affordable than conventional options and they are beginning to integrate audio and video technologies that make learning much more easily achieved.
Obviously the benefits are also that you have a digital resource that you can continually refer back to and if you have more than one child then you have instructions for all of them whenever or if they decide they want to learn to play guitar.
You can misplace a hard copy instruction book but losing digital copy is a bit harder and even if it got erased by accident you can simply just download another copy.
Many of the popular instructional guides are also offering lifetime free updates so if they add enhanced lessons you can get those without additional costs.
Basically the only thing you need is a computer and access to the internet as well as a way to read pdf files because most digital products are formatted using this format but pdf readers are easy to find online and commonly free to download and use.