If you don’t find the children creepy enough for your liking, mod the game so they all wear inexplicable clown make-up.
If you’re too impatient to level up your lock picking, simply mod the game to give you an unbreakable lock pick.
PC gamers, however, get the added bonus of being able to mod their games to their liking. Skyrim is a great game regardless of which platform you’re playing it on.