My son was eight years old when I got sober and I used to drag him to meetings all the time, never thinking about how it affected him. I was an every-other-weekend dad then. When he was about eleven, we were getting ready to head out to a meeting and he said to me "we always do AA stuff, can't we go to a movie or something?" It got me to thinking. I gave up a Saturday home group so I could spend more time with him during the weekends he was with me.
I have to remember my early sobriety when I become annoyed by kids. I can tolerate little kids in a meeting as long as they aren't running around disrupting the meeting and the meeting is open.
However, given the general atmosphere of sickness that pervades some meetings, I don't think I'd want my kids there. Meetings like that drag me down in a fit spiritual condition, I can't help but think that kids pick up on that too.
Jim