diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index cd341def..3cfecbc0 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from concurrent.futures._base import TimeoutError
 from functools import partial
 from typing import Set, Union, List, MutableMapping, Optional
+from typing import List
 
 import pyppeteer
 import requests
@@ -388,6 +389,15 @@ def __repr__(self) -> str:
         return "<Element {} {}>".format(repr(self.element.tag), ' '.join(attrs))
 
     @property
+    def children(self) -> List['Element']:
+
+        """Returns a list of child elements."""
+        return [Element(element=child, url=self.url, default_encoding=self.default_encoding) 
+                for child in self.element.getchildren()]
+
+    def getchildren(self) -> List['Element']:
+        """Returns a list of child elements (lxml compatibility method)."""
+        return self.children
     def attrs(self) -> _Attrs:
         """Returns a dictionary of the attributes of the :class:`Element <Element>`
         (`learn more <https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_attributes.asp>`_).