We have an 8 year old fiddle player Lucy. Perhaps we can leave them in a quiet room together!!! Our twins age 2 are veterans of the folkscene having attended their first singaround at the age of 4 days!! Unfortunately the folk world is largely (in UK at least) populated by single or older people whose children have grown up but if we want to attract families and people of child rearing age then something has to be done to encourage them. That means either putting on activities for children and charging accordingly or allowing them to come free so their parents will feel more inclined to turn up. If a child is spoiling an event for others I see no problem in asking the parent to take them out but if the parent has paid not only for themselves but the child then they are losing a lot of money and it may not be that the child is badly behaved just little!!!!