I started āexposingā the game of Go to my daughter when she was just 3. Not trying to teach her, simply being around playing stones of the goban, and raising her interest, and letting her place stones as well.
I think if one parent spends some time weekly with the game, that will raise interest into the game.
Then at 4, I started to actually teach her, using various methods, but without success. We are in China, so I brought her to the local to school, they told us itās better to wait until she is 5. During that time, I just kept with exposing her to the game (showing how to properly hold the stone, play on intersection, letting her draw shapes on the goban).
Then when she turned 5, I started showing her a Chinese anime about Go named Weiqi Shaonian (å“ę£å°å¹“), and a few weeks into the anime, enrolled her into the local Go school.
So basically, I spent some time and energy to make playing Go appears as some sort of totally reasonable activity or games, and thatās easier in China indeed, where the game is well known and respected.
The school recommends to start at 5, so I think there is no more risk at that age (regarding chocking on the stones).
She has been attending the school for about 6 months now, still havenāt learnt the complete ruleset. They mostly play variants of first capture Go instead, even had a national online tournament. So the progression is very slow. About one year until they know all the rules to play a complete game and do the scoring I guess.
As she will soon turn 6, we started watching Hikaru No Go to keep the motivation up, but itās harder for her to understand than Weiqi Shaonian. We do the school exercise every day (through the school app), it takes us about 15 minutes.
With Go being that much more featured at home, the 1.5yo sister is receiving much more exposure, and is really willing to be part of it as well. I started the same process (just simple exposure) but I am expecting she will end up being more into Go than the elder sister.