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I think when choosing a scale for your kids/grandkids you should take into consideration the kid themself more so than just their age. I myself treated my toys very well and have my first HO trains from when I was 5 years old all in excellent running condition. I know a boy who's about 11 right now and loves trains. He has a large amount of HO trains and a basic layout. I've helped him a great deal with his trains and have taught him a lot of things. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother and while his dad spends a lot of time with him and has bought him a lot of trains, he can't help him with his layout. Unlike myself, this boy is can be rather rought with his trains. Of course now he treats his trains a lot better, but it wasn't too long ago that I was doing a lot of repair work on a fairly regular basis fixing things like broken couplers, etc. When I first met him a few years ago he did have a Life-Like HO set that hadn't been operated in almost a year because it was all in pieces from him playing with it. Children behave differently and some children might be very advanced for their age and others not. If you have a rather hyperactive child I wouldn't recommend getting them and N gauge set. Of cousre if the child's parent has a layout the child can then learn more and probably treat the trains better. I know one guy whose daughter at age 3 would run his expensive Kato HO locomotives on his layout unsupervised with no problems. However, he wasn't aware of this until he kept noticing that his trains were always in different spots on his layout. My best advice is think about what gauge is right for YOUR child specifically. Another thing to point out is that even if a child is capable of operating a certain gauge, that doesn't mean it's necessarily the best for them. Children have their own likes and dislikes and may have a preference as to what scale they like the most. A kid might be a wiz at running Z scale, but could prefer O gauge instead, simply because they like it better. All children are different. Whatever your kid is like there's a scale out there that's just right for them!
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