In Looking for Raid.
So a little background, I’ve played WoW a long time. I was in the original beta, and played all the way up until Cataclysm there I took a break. Came back for Shadowlands and have been playing since.
I now have 2 beautiful kids, 3 and 5. My 5 year old son has taken an interest in Wow watching me play it ever now and then. At first I was very hesitant, but I let him explore a little bit while supervised. He loves flying around on the dragons and just exploring different areas. He finally got up the courage to try fighting things by himself (mostly just mashing buttons) and was so proud of himself when he was able to do it.
So I let him play every now and then, supervised, and only for short periods of time. He wanders around, fights stuff, sometimes he just likes flying or pretending to “patrol” around the towns.
Recently he saw me doing mythic plus and he asked what the other players were and I said they were my helpers. He said “When do I get my own helpers?” and I told him probably not for a while. So I was going to wait until the next patch dropped with the AI followers and just let him play around in there. Obviously I don’t just want to turn him lose with a group, both for his sake and for theirs 
But he kept begging me, and he wanted some “helpers” to play with, so I thought about LFR and how it’s basically like playing with npcs anyway. So I joined him up in the queue for Amirdrassil LFR and we waited. He was so excited, “When are they going to join me?”
He got into the raid and I told him just to follow his helpers, which he did. I told him to stay out of the bad stuff on the ground, which he did…mostly. 
He was nervous to do the first boss on his own, so I did Gnarlroot and then he wanted to try it so I let him take over after Gnarlroot was defeated. It was pretty funny watching a raid from a 5 year old’s point of view.
“People are trapped! I have to help them!”
“Why aren’t people running away? There’s bad stuff on the ground!”
So he made it through Igira and only died at the very end (because he ran all the way out of range of his healers because “he didn’t want to blow anyone up”). He was too scared to do Volcoross (which is fine, it’s a giant snake I get it). After that I was going to be done, but he was having so much fun and he wanted to do more so we queued up for the other LFR raids. He loved trying to stomp the mushrooms on Tindral.
Then came Fyrakk, and he was so focused. Even though his little sister was trying to distract him. “Not right now sis, I’m trying to kill a dragon!”. We’re starting! We’re fighting a dragon!
He ran around like a crazy person because of all the swirls and effects and to his credit managed to dodge most of them much to my amazement. I didn’t think he would react fast enough but he did and managed to live through the entire fight on his own.
When Fyrakk finally died, he let out a loud whoop “We beat the dragon! We did it!” and was jumping up and down on the chair.
Being able to share my hobby with my 5 year old has been a fun time and it’s so adorable watching things from his perspective. It makes me remember the amazement and wonder I used to have when I first started.
The only reason I share this, is not to brag, or to dump on LFR about how easy it is, or to share how “good” my kid is, but to simply share a wholesome moment I had with my son in WoW that I thought others might find amusing.
And for disclaimer:
He never plays by himself, it’s always supervised. I don’t let him go in the “scary” areas of WoW or more mature ones. I know the game well enough to know which places and activities he can do and which he can’t.
He hardly ever plays for more than an hour at a time. They have very limited screen time compared to most kids his age. I think we played two hours on a weekend once, but that’s the longest “stretch” he’s ever played. He’s a normal kid, loves trains, video games, and going outside and playing in the snow. He just happens to like video games too.
Outside of his first LFR experience he has had no other direct experiences with players. The most interaction he’s had is “helping his friends” complete the arena quests in the Ohn’aran plains.
Anyways, just thought I’d share something wholesome amongst the doom and gloom of the forums 
