I abhor it when age is used as a criteria, limitation or as an excuse for assumed inability. While a 3-year-old isn't going to understand RPG concepts, an 8-year old certainly is. Beethoven was 7 years old for his first public piano performance so I refuse to accept age as a limit at the game table.
Children are also natural no fear, laugh-in-the-face of death make-believers and it's a total shame to assume they're unable to play, especially with the wide range of rules-lite RPG options available. The recent Pathfinder RPG Beginner box springs to mind, but so do a whole ton of old school systems such as OD&D, OSRIC, and Labyrinth Lord, just to name a few. Plus, there are also different genre options if your young ones would rather play Buzz Lightyear (mine aren't *that* young).
We in our society are far too used to assuming that children of a certain age are only capable of X, Y and Z and nothing more. I'm adamantly opposed to putting any child in a box based on age, when they are so capable of thinking outside that box.
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