I have taught music lessons for over 30 years, to include guitar, & classroom music. In fact, I have a 7 year guitar student who just started a couple of months ago & is doing quite well! I made the mistake of buying a baby taylor once thinking that the old arthritis is making it harder to carry around a big guitar, & I might be able to play it easier. I bought it from a "friend" during a music festival--in the same room where music was being played quite loudly, & he said it needed to be tuned, & have new strings put on it. When I got the thing home, I realized that no amount of tuning nor changing the strings would make that thing play in tune! Almost every "baby taylor" which I have played or heard played is horribly out of tune. If you want your child to play a guitar, then get an instrument which will help, and not hinder. Having an out of tune instrument will not teach any student to develop their ability to hear tones correctly--and the "babys" are made out of tune and cannot be correctly tuned (unless you just happen to find the only one I've ever heard of which is actually pitched correctly). Your 7 yr old most likely has very small fingers on very small hands, & needs a very small guitar such as a well made 1/2 size guitar. I have on many occasions met a new student's parent(s) at a music store to offer my opinion about guitars. There are many makers who make decent quality 1/2 sized guitars with nylon strings--which are easier on the small child's fingers. It is a much better choice, because it can be properly tuned, and can be played more easily by a small person. If the child has her mind made up, you may not be able to satisfy her with a uke, or mandolin, although they are terrific instruments for little ones. When a child says "I want to play the . . . " that is the time to let them try that instrument, and get the best one you can afford to in order to give them the best possible opportunity to learn to play well. If you had mentioned any other brand, I probably would not be responding so vehemently, but after seeing many students quit after making a frustrating attempting to play a poor quality instrument, I hope you can understand why I write this to you. The regular Taylor guitars seem to be good quality instruments, and I just cannot imagine why they have allowed the babys to come off the assembly line for so many years with the inherent defects which, by the way, caused them to create a bigger version of the "baby" which does not have such horrible intonation, but is still quite a bit larger than the average 7 year old would require.