My daughter isn't as young as yours. She will be five next month. She constantly has friends over to play, so Tucker is around children all the time and he loves them! The children are only allowed to interact with him when I can supervise and they are never allowed to pick him up. I also let them play in the backyard together, but only when I can supervise. Basically, they do great together, I just have to be there to watch because he's so small. When I can't watch, he goes in his crate or xpen and is always close to me. I have sneaky kids in my neighborhood and I never know what they are going to do.