Children

Children appear in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. All children are human (there are Nords, Imperials, Bretons and Redguards). Elven, Orcish, and "beastial" children do not appear in Skyrim.

Regardless of a child's race or economic status, all boys wear a collared sweater with brown trousers, and all girls wear a simple belted dress. However, the color of the sweater or dress varies from child to child.

Some children may want to play with the Dragonborn. Games include Hide & Seek or Tag. Some even ask for some gold (Svari).

Invincible
Much like in Fallout 3, children cannot be killed, injured, or knocked unconscious, nor can they be pickpocketed. Dragon Shouts also do not affect children no matter which shout is used. However they can still be hit and weapons skill can be increased from doing so.

Harming a child will cause assault charges in the same way as harming an adult. If a child sees the Dragonborn breaking the law, he or she will warn the nearest adult.

Notable children

 * Aventus Aretino : Initiates the Dark Brotherhood questline with his task to kill Grelod the Kind.
 * Babette : Alchemist assassin in the Dark Brotherhood.
 * Fjotra : The potential Sybil of Dibella in the Temple of Dibella in Markarth
 * Helgi : The deceased daughter of Hroggar who was burned in a fire. She is exists as a ghost.

Trivia

 * Sometimes when performing spells while in the presence of a male child, he will ask the Dragonborn to make him invisible. There is no way to make him invisible, but you can lie to him. He will then run around the town and try to scare people while being "invisible".
 * Some children can be given a coin. Sond and Bottar will reveal a map location if you give them a coin. Svari will also thank you greatly if you donate to her.
 * Children in Skyrim tend to have similar inventories. Some items they tend to carry are: Quill, Charcoal, Roll of Paper, Broken Sword (Braith), Inkwell, Shoes, Kid's Clothes, Gold Coin, Iron Dagger (Males), Drum, Lute, Flute, Wooden Laddle, Various Ingots (Blacksmith Apprentices, Generally), Leather Strips, Apple, Bucket, Leather, Sweet Roll, Long Taffy Treat, Honeynut Treat, Boiled Cream Treat, and Empty Wine Bottles. There is most likely many others, these just appear to be the most common.

Bugs

 * Some children may hire mercenaries or The Dark Brotherhood to kill the player, if they catch him/her committing a crime. This was intended to be done by adults only.
 * When items are dropped near children, they may tell the player that they dropped something and attempt to give it back. No items are added to the inventory, however.
 * Doing a charged Werewolf attack can sling back children like any other NPC, they will be unharmed however as they get up.