Best terrier for children?

[Smitty]

I grew up around 2 poodles. I did seem to get bitten fairly often, although it was probably 2-3 times. It was a traumatic experience as I was then told off by parents for upsetting the dog.
They were at the point of rehoming me ?

 

[Barton Bounty]

Are Australian Terriers popular in the UK? A family friend has one, he is utterly delightful and apparently is besotted with their four year old grandson. I recently looked at the breeder's website and social media, she had many photos and videos of her dogs playing with children and they seemed like the perfect combination.

I am not sure about terriers but my friend has an Australian Shepherd dog and he is lovely, very hairy but lovely and crazy ?

 

[P3LH]

Coming back…again…told you I’m a terrier freak. A friend has a delightful Welsh terrier with a superb temperament, none of the terrier hot under the collar business and a size I’d imagine would make a nice family dog.

I grew up with dobes, bull breeds and various working type terrier form Jack Russells on - I survived. And one of them, a Jack, was a beautiful yet neurotic land shark which I have posted about before. She devoured most people yet never had a crossed word with me - and we did everything together.


Children have to be taught as much as the dogs. Of my current three, two are as trustworthy with kids as dogs can possible be, and the third wouldn’t see a child and think lunch - but is sharp and wouldn’t stand nonsense if she’d had enough. All are around kids regularly, as surprisingly kids can tolerate being told no from time to time much like dogs. All can get on well if they know where they stand what they score is.

 

[poiuytrewq]

We had a cairn when my sister and I were kids. We were old enough to know how to behave with her but my mum was a full time child minder so we always had toddlers and babies round and she was a little star with everyone.
We have many photos of her chilling in a dolls pram (some with a bonnet on!) she was the loveliest little character who was always given the option of a quiet room but always found with the kids!

 

[misst]

Are Australian Terriers popular in the UK? A family friend has one, he is utterly delightful and apparently is besotted with their four year old grandson. I recently looked at the breeder's website and social media, she had many photos and videos of her dogs playing with children and they seemed like the perfect combination.

I find this interesting. My terrier x boy who was a stray in Malaga and came to the UK aged 7 months, was abandoned at the airport and came to me via fostering friends is likely an Australian Terrier. My vets, one of whom is Australian, a friend from NZ who has an AT and a breeder of ATs that I bumped into on a walk all think he is one. I call him a terrier x though if I google ATs he is identical to the pictures.
I would not recommend him for children despite his devotion to my granddaughter. He came to us as we were a child free home - then granddaughter came along!

He adores her but I know he has growled at children before and has an anxious temprement. I am not sure if this is his breeding or his start in life. We adore him and I am so impressed with his devotion to our granddaughter over the last 5 years BUT he is never left unsupervised and even she senses that, whilst she can cart the JRT 2 year old around and we all play in carefree way with her, with Moti she does not pick him up or lie next to him or put her face next to him. She always says she loves him "a little bit more" than her Daddys dog or our Ruby but we are all more wary with him. If he is typical of his breed then I would not choose them for a family pet.