Hi @dbooster - thanks for popping by. I'm glad to hear that your boys enjoy playing chess.
I have a chess blog that I need to do more work on, but it does have a bunch of posts to help elementary players (click the "Easy Chess Tips" option in the top menu - it even gives an example of a "distraction" tactic that I used based on the teachings of Neistadt: https://easychesstips.com/chess-tactic-training-tip-1-art-distraction
!BBH
!ALIVE