No Child Labor - animations / paths at Hearthfire homes

[Aelthwyn]

Kids in the streets of towns run around or sit on benches, but when your kids are at one of the buildable homes the only activities available to them outside, it would seem, are things like chopping wood and mining clay.  It would be awesome if some action markers or paths or whatever NPCs use could be added to the hearthfire home areas so children can play outside and not just spend their time working all day.  

 

At the very least it might be nice if there was a way to exclude children from using the mining animations, that would be nice even if they didn't really have much else to do.   

As an alternative working option, a raking in the garden sort of action would seem more appropriate than mining and smelting, might be nice even if your steward could be tending the garden - I'm not sure I've seen farm-like activity like that in the outside garden plot.  

 

Additionally, though considerably harder, would be adding more play animations such as sitting on the floor/ground and walking a little doll in front of them or drawing in the dirt with a stick; waving a wooden sword around not just at a target dummy, crouching down and jumping up, twirling, hopping on one foot, laying on the floor with an open book in front of them, bending down as if picking up something tiny like a pebble,  . . . 

[oiessel]

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