My kids love pancakes.
Of course they do. Almost everyone loves pancakes.
And almost everyone I know makes them from some sort of mix.
That’s okay. We do it on camping trips. But I’ve learned something important about pancakes:
Making them entirely from scratch takes very little additional time and effort, relative to making them out of a box or (shudder) a pre-mixed ready to go carton of pancake batter. And scratch is way way better.

This is my go-to pancake recipe, with some modifications:

https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/simply-perfect-pancakes-recipe

They’re perfectly good if you follow the recipe as written, but I’ve tweaked it a bit, and I think the tweaks make it much much better.

First off – use the malt powder suggested in the recipe rather than sugar. You can get malt powder at most grocery stores, or buy it from Amazon. The malt powder is a big improvement over sugar. I’m pretty sure it’s no healthier, but these are pancakes. If you wanted healthy eat kale.
Next – I use buttermilk rather than the regular milk called for in the recipe. Makes them way richer. I also add a bit of cinnamon, fresh nutmeg, and a small splash of vanilla to the batter.
Also, I find you’re going to need more milk than is in the recipe. I make the batter using proportions listed first. It results in a very thick batter that makes the pancakes sort of cakey. I prefer them to be thinner and chewier rather than thick and fluffy. So, after the batter rests, I add more buttermilk to thin the batter out some. Poured onto the griddle they look pretty thin:

That thinness though means that they crisp up nicely on the outside, while being a little chewy on the inside.
That’s a matter of personal preference, of course.
Either way, these are outstanding. A single recipe makes enough for a family of four, and it’s easy to double or triple. I’ve made this recipe for as many a fifteen or twenty people (my niece’s Bat Mitzvah in Philadelphia. I honestly don’t know how many people there were, I just kept banging out these pancakes until people stopped coming into the kitchen with plates).