Sjoekie wasn't a kid friendly dog. We were aware of that. We were a no kids household. However I slowly started to introduce other people's kids. He was OK with them eventually, but preferred to stay away which was fine. Than we got kids of our own. It was scary. How would he react? Well. Beter than we could ever expected! He wanted to take care of them. He kept laying with them, wanted to protect them and got angry when we left without him. How dare we? I wish we could've enjoyed him for 10 more years so he could see the kids grow up