Thank you for the wonderful advice. I wish I had a kid that could work with us, but unfortunalty I am not so sure that will be possible. A short story on Kane. We have had him since he was 5 1/2 weeks old. He has really never been around kids, but neither has the other three that we have. Kane turned 2 yrs old in March. To my knowledge he has never had a bad incounter with a kid, since I have never had him around kids. I just feel he doesn't know how to handle them. I go to the petstore every other week and take turns taking a different dog with me. They have all been to dog parks and he seemed fine as long as he wasn't on leash and could control the situation and keep a certain distance from kids. He just acts so fearful. I thought about taking him to parks and such were kids were, but then thought that would probably be to overwelming for him.

In the meantime I will brainstorm on finding a younger kid to help me out, although most kids I know are intimidated by their size.

One question I do have though. Say for example I am at the pet store and Kane sees a kid and starts barking. How should I handle the sitation? I understand not to comfort him, but do I repremend him?