Children’s Week Has Arrived! Collect Pets, Achieves, and Trading Post Points

Live Posted 2023/05/02 at 1:05 AM by Paryah

What a Long, Strange Trip It's BeenReins of the Violet Proto-DrakeFor the Children

It’s time to give back to the children of Azeroth during Children’s Week! Take an orphan under your wing and show them the wonders of the world.Throughout the year, the orphans of Azeroth spend much of their time wandering their home cities, dreaming of the day they’ll be old enough (and big enough) to go out into the world to experience the adventures and marvels they’ve missed as children. During Children’s Week, the giving souls of the Horde and the Alliance can help make those dreams come true.Also, you can earn even more Trader's Tender while completing select activities with your little protégé.
Traveling with orphans is now easier than ever! All orphans (except Wolvar and Oracle) now have their own mounts, making it all that much easier to show them the wonders of Azeroth.
OverviewWhen: May 1–May 8
Levels: Available to characters level 10 or above
Where:

Kul Tiran and Zandalari: Orphan Matron Westerson in Boralus to start the Kul Tiran orphan quest line; Padae in Zuldazar to start the Zandalari orphan quest line
Human and Orc: Orphan Matron Nightingale in Stormwind; Orphan Matron Battlewail in Orgrimmar
Draenei and Blood Elf: Orphan Matron Mercy in Shattrath
Wolvar and Oracle: Orphan Matron Aria in Dalaran.

Pets
Showing your orphaned child around can be beneficial to you and the child. Once you’ve completed the various quests associated with this event, you’ll have a choice of several pets to add to your Battle Pet collection:Boralus and Zuldazar:Mr. Crabs, Beakbert, Froglet, and ScaleyOrgrimmar and Stormwind:Whiskers the Rat, Speedy, Scooter the Snail, Mr. WigglesShattrath: Egbert, Peanut, Willy, LegsDalaran (Northrend):Curious Oracle Hatchling, Curious Wolvar PupIf you’ve collected all these pets through the years you’ll be rewarded with the Pet Care Package which provides a variety of items, including pug costumes, Magical Pet Biscuit, and a Flawless Battle-Stone.
AchievementsMeta-Achievement: For the Children
Complete the following Children’s Week achievements listed below, and you’ll earn the title reward of Matron or Patron: Home Alone; Daily Chores; Bad Example; Aw, Isn’t It Cute?; and Hail to the King, Baby.Home Alone (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Use your Hearthstone while your orphan is with you.Daily Chores (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Complete five daily quests with your orphan out.School of Hard Knocks (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Take your orphan into the Battlegrounds and complete the feats listed below:

Capture the flag in Eye of the Storm, assault a tower in Alterac Valley, assault a flag in Arathi Basin, return a fallen flag in Warsong Gulch

Bad Example (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Eat the sweets listed below while your orphan is watching.

Tigule’s Strawberry Ice Cream, Tasty Cupcake, Red Velvet Cupcake, Delicious Chocolate Cake, Lovely Cake Slice, Dalaran Brownie, Dalaran Doughnut

Aw, Isn’t It Cute? (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Obtain one of the Children’s Week reward pets through questing.Hail to the King, Baby (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Defeat King Ymiron in Utgarde Pinnacle with your orphan out.Veteran Nanny
Acquire Egbert’s Egg, Sleepy Willy, and Elekk Training Collar on one character.

These are the items that unlock the battle pets Egbert, Willy, and Peanut.

WoW ClassicThe WoW Classic version of Children's Week is also available for the giving souls of the Horde and the Alliance to help make orphan dreams true. Talk to an Orphan Matron to pick up a pal you can guide around Azeroth and Outland.When: May 1–May 8Levels: Available to characters level 10 and aboveWhere:

Human and Orc: Orphan Matron Nightingale in Stormwind (Alliance); Orphan Matron Battlewail in Orgrimmar (Horde)
Draenei and Blood Elf: Orphan Matron Mercy in Shattrath

Have fun traveling around the world with your little buddy by your side!For more information on this holiday, you can visit Wowhead's Holiday Guide or Wowhead's Classic Holiday Guide.

Comment by skylinexdSmh my head blizzard.

You forgot that you removed School of Hard Knocks from the meta achievement a few patches ago in Shadowlands.Comment by lovelywazWhen and HOW can I steal the mount off that orphan? 🤨

Of course, I am not a heartless monster. I will make sure to show them the whole Azeroth first and then at the end I will leave them in the Cavern of Times near those scary Dragon Guards before stealing that mount! 😈Comment by Lilyoptra"Also, you can earn even more Trader's Tender while completing select activities with your little protégé." I'm pretty sure I know what they are trying to say, but confusing and poorly worded. Clarification please, BlizzComment by Alfa"Also, you can earn even more Trader's Tender while completing select activities with your little protégé." I'm pretty sure I know what they are trying to say, but confusing and poorly worded. Clarification please, BlizzComment by ClinoclaseBig sad orphan DF whelps have not been added. Maybe next year?Comment by Elfizm"Also, you can earn even more Trader's Tender while completing select activities with your little protégé." I'm pretty sure I know what they are trying to say, but confusing and poorly worded. Clarification please, BlizzComment by feffe79Another year and another school of hard knocks not done, preventing my completion of the meta-ach.Comment by ForionAnother year and another school of hard knocks not done, preventing my completion of the meta-ach.Comment by feffe79Another year and another school of hard knocks not done, preventing my completion of the meta-ach.Comment by MikhailovYou know what, ill say it. The forsaken get left out of this, and i have an example of blizzard showing that we can have forsaken kids in game.

When you use the anima power toy and get the one that turns you into a child version of an undead, you turn into a child ghost. So they have definitely thought about it.

Dammit blizz let me take a ghost kid on a world tour on a skeletal pony to see all the plague lands, and the scourge bits of Northrend. Yea it's kinda cursed, but why not.Comment by KiorelleWhen and HOW can I steal the mount off that orphan? 🤨 Comment by ApolypticaI thought they would add at least one DF pet...
well so much for those promised "Holiday Updates" on their 2023 roadmap, in the end they added 1 Toy for Noblegarden, that's it?
Guess we will have to wait for 10.1.7 for that supposed "Holiday Refresh" then...Comment by ShadowlootSo, there is nothing new at all, again?
Not even the bluepost.Comment by RingoFlinthammerBlizzard: We updated Children's Week!

Players: YAY!

Blizzard: ... to add mounts for most of the orphans!

Players: Yay?

Blizzard: That's it, that's the holiday refresh for Children's Week.

Players: ...Comment by aquavenChildren's Week needs a major update. They should have more questlines for more orphans to tour around Azeroth, retroactively adding some for some of the last few expansions that never got an update for this holiday. They never added an update for MoP, WoD, Legion, SL (another questling like Uuna?), and now DF. Dragonflight even has a spot in Valdrakken as a day care that would be perfect for Children's Week.

They should also allow us to actually adopt the kids. We do that for Northrend, but not for any other Children's Week quests. We have squires/gruntlings, baby murlocs, a baby drakonid or two, Naga kids, a Tortollan kid, an ogre kid, a draenei ghost girl, and others, but we can only tour around literal orphans and never adopt them during this holiday?Comment by DrakknfyreI thought they would add at least one DF pet...
well so much for those promised "Holiday Updates" on their 2023 roadmap, in the end they added 1 Toy for Noblegarden, that's it?
Guess we will have to wait for 10.1.7 for that supposed "Holiday Refresh" then...Comment by Gesika6Smh my head blizzard.

You forgot that you removed School of Hard Knocks from the meta achievement a few patches ago in Shadowlands.