This is a general question about the aging process of elves. Do they age slowly as such that they can remain children for long years?
I feel sorry for the parent who has to rase an elf who looks like a 8 year old for 200+ years. May want to quit parenting altogether at that point.
Or do they grow into their adult teenage bodies up to a certain point and then age slowly from then on. Given that some elves maintain their immortality either through gifts or sheer magic, how do they grow up to their adult forms before they live the long years.
Remember the kids walking around the streets of Suramar City. I don’t think i ever saw children in darnassus.
Regarding maturity among elves and the current children’s Week. How many elves RP as a family with kids among them?
How many elves play the role of caregivers/caretakers/matrons. Especially after Teldrassil burned. How many are needed with the birth of Bel’ameth?
I wonder if there is a period of time or a cycle when children are allowed to be born. Of if they can be born?
Can a 10,000 year old elf have kids or do they need to be within a certain age range before they lose that ability to have offspring after a certain period.
Could Tyrande and Malfurion be parents or are they in the Grandma/Grandpa range of the Kaldorei lifespan?
I want to amend this question also towards the Draenei race as well.
Physically and mentally, elves in WoW mature at the same age as humans. A twenty-something year old night elf is an adult night elf. The difference lies in cultural expectations, such that an elf so young may be seen as lacking vital wisdom their elders have yet to guide them towards.
Their physical aging also slows to nearly nothing after reaching adulthood, thus they maintain their physical youth for hundreds or thousands of years.
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I saw the title, I saw the realm.
Nope, nope, nope.
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/ignoring, also common in the Realm. 
I am inclined to also wonder though, and this is an in-depth thought, that do night elves physically share the experiences of their time/work in the Emerald Dream. Or do they merely visit in their astral form while their bodies slumber without wear.
Can the mentality of a Night elf who has slumbered for a period in the dream be the same as one who has lived the experience of time in the physical plane?
Look at the separation of night elves vs blood elves, primarily before the third war.
Where the kaldorei lived in dust and twilight, quel’dorei have lived in spring/summer.
Where Night Elves live as one with nature, High Elves live in luxuries and parties.
Most of the elves I’ve met haven’t.
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That much is true.
It is almost impossible for anyone though to truly play to their age. One who has lived ten thousand years day by day is less likely to be interested in the affairs of other races whose lives are short lived.
Its is one thing to mentor them, immature or naive as they are, in how to survive or even to educate them in the ways of the world.
It is another to partake of their lifestyles or find enjoyment in anything that is so fleeting. The issues that short lived beings treat as excessive are hardly irrelevant to those who have lived for untold centuries and are above such petty squabbles.
Short lived creatures hardly understand real conflicts when they can last for hundreds of years.
Humans are to elves as murlocs are to humans. The scope is easy to see.
Elves don’t reach maturation, we’re always hundreds of year old children at heart.
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Per the Cataclysm Eastern Plaguelands quests, we can affirm that elves (at least Thalassian elves) mature at a rate equivalent to humans.
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Tarenar_Sunstrike
Given that the Scourge/Argent Dawn/Crusade hadn’t existed for 10 years but Tarenar and Gidwin aspired to join the Argents and fight the Scourge as children, this would imply they were anywhere from 8 to 11 at the time of the Third War.
Of course this doesn’t necessarily reflect on the cultures of those races. For example, Vereesa Windrunner was absolutely of a, ‘mature,’ age during the Second War, but was deemed too young to be permitted to fight.