As a parent who took 3 sons to hockey and soccer every weekend (at great distances at ungodly hours of so many Saturday and Sunday mornings) and pretty much ignored bridge the whole time then ultimately got all 3 sons into tournament (bridge) play... Hallelujah
the way I did it was in artificial steps, practice each step until they get it then go to the next one:
step 1, learn a trick taking game.
step 2, make them take tricks as a partnership, not as an individual
step 3, teach them about trump (they'll ...