@mekkaokereke Adam Ragusea has a few videos that are very helpful here! Helps to see the technique in action.
I don't have kids but my gf is a culinary school grad and pancakes are one of the few things she always complains that she *can't* cook well. So I had to figure something out there. I mostly do them as dessert -- use a blend of almond flour and cake flour, both butter and oil in the pan, mix in some crushed almonds, hazlenuts, and macadademia nuts...then slap a thin layer of nutella between two of those and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top :)