[yorkietalkjilly]

To be perfectly safe and fair to the dog, I don't think I would ever want to have a tiny Yorkie around small children as you cannot watch them 100% of the time and the chances for injury are too great to take a chance. Since you have that situation all that you can do is make a solemn promise to yourself that you can never take your eyes off the dog when a young child is around it and hope that you can stick to that. You can explain to the children about how fragile the little baby animal is but I would not really expect or rely on them to comprehend/understand/remember that as to do so would be unfair to a little child. All that you can do is keep them apart unless you can have eyes on the situation. Little children just do not have the judgment or recall to be 100% safe around tiny animals in most situations from my past experience though I know some do get by without injury. Then again - some don't, so I would not risk putting the little dog's health at risk around a little child who just can't be risk-free at all times. When my son was small, he was the most gentle little child ever around dogs and still I would never have left him unmonitored by me to have played around a small dog like a Yorkie.