As I was playing Glitch for the first time yesterday, my 6 year old was standing behind me, giggling at the street names and all the silly things in the game and he's been asking me about playing ever since. I have a suggestion in that regard.
How about having a children's account (not during the alpha testing phase, later on once the game is live) that would have limited access to the Glitch world? I realize there are several problems with having children in a multiplayer world, mainly:
1. It can be annoying to the adults playing the game (I've been on that side when I played Ultima Online years ago and had to share the game with annoying teenagers)
2. Parents wouldn't want children exposed to questionable content or interactions with others.
I think that both of those problems could be eliminated by having a children's account that would be more limited than a regular account. It would not have access to any kind of chat features and it would not be able to receive or act out action on other players. So, basically they could interact with the world and with any NPC characters, but could not interact with others.
If you want to make it a bit more complex, then each child account would be tied to a parent account and the parent could add "friends" for the child and the child account could do actions and chat with those accounts only. That way a family could play online together, or a child could play with his friends or siblings.
What do you think?