I trust mine not to hurt a child but he does scare them half to death, which is another reason to say maybe starting with a 2 y/o or older dog first because I have people always telling oh you have a cute little lapdog yorkie.. NO I have a hyper running nonstop circles around small kids and talking in his half growl mumble voice thing he does so of course the kid starts crying which means it is time for Guinness to start licking them lol
Anyway... Maybe a dog where you can see how it will accept the kids instead of bonding with a puppy and not having the proper time to train and raise little ones then it becomes a wild dog.