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** In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' it is played straight with Boo.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' it is played straight with Boo.
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''Fanfic/CoolCatSavesVietnam'': Cool Cat, being a child, doesn't understand why his supervisors nickname him "Agent Orange" (as a reference to the deadly agent the US sprayed over Vietnam during the war leading to the birth defects of many Vietnamese children) and thinks it's a "cool nickname".
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* ''Webcomic/SpringtrapAndDeliah''
** Deliah is an adorably chipper girl who takes Springtrap's odd existence without question. Downplayed, as she is way more aware of his more dangerous traits, like his possessiveness and his anger issues than she lets on, but deliberately lets them slide to keep him as a friend.
** Subverted with Harry, who sees through Springtrap's nice facade almost right away and uses very direct blackmail to protect himself form him.
** Deliah is an adorably chipper girl who takes Springtrap's odd existence without question. Downplayed, as she is way more aware of his more dangerous traits, like his possessiveness and his anger issues than she lets on, but deliberately lets them slide to keep him as a friend.
** Subverted with Harry, who sees through Springtrap's nice facade almost right away and uses very direct blackmail to protect himself form him.
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* In ''Literature/SadakoAndTheThousandPaperCranes'', Sadako at first thinks having leukemia will only make her miss school for a while, but eventually realizes how serious it is. Her friend Kenji [[AvertedTrope averts]] this, as despite the doctors' efforts to give him hope, he's smart enough to read his own blood chart and realizes that he's getting worse.
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Victorian-era Anglosphere invented modern "childhood". Inspired by the ideals of The Enlightenment and an interpretation of Literature/TheBible's New Testament based on them, they came to the conclusion that the time people spent between being a baby and being useful to society was special and precious — that people this age were innocent and full of wonder and beloved by God, and that they should be loved and protected and cared for by society in general. They came to believe that there was a stark contrast between the [[RousseauWasRight innocent and instinctual goodness]] of children and the cynical evil of adults. After several decades the grassroots belief in and support for "childhood" became so strong that children under certain ages were actually forbidden from doing certain types of work despite the dedicated lobbying of business interests who didn't want to lose their smallest and cheapest workers (e.g. smaller coal-miners mean smaller mineshafts). By 1900 only a fifth or so of British and US children (under 16) were in full-time employment, with the UK [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_and_Young_Persons_Act_1933 restricting child labor]] in 1933 and the USA [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act doing the same]] in 1938.
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The Victorian-era Anglosphere invented modern "childhood". Inspired by the ideals of The Enlightenment and an interpretation of Literature/TheBible's New Testament based on them, they came to the conclusion that the time people spent between being a baby and being useful to society was special and precious — that people this age were innocent and full of wonder and beloved by God, and that they should be loved and protected and cared for by society in general. They came to believe that there was a stark contrast between the [[RousseauWasRight innocent and instinctual goodness]] of children and the cynical evil of adults. After several decades the grassroots belief in and support for "childhood" became so strong that children under certain ages were actually forbidden from doing certain types of work despite the dedicated lobbying of business interests who didn't want to lose their smallest and cheapest workers (e.g. smaller coal-miners mean smaller mineshafts). By 1900 only a fifth or so of British and US children (under 16) were in full-time employment, with the UK [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_and_Young_Persons_Act_1933 restricting child labor]] in 1933 and the USA [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act doing the same]] in 1938.
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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': A recurring theme of the series is that children are born wanting to be happy, make friends, and play, but adults abuse their desire to please authority figures to make them tools for their own advancement. Many of the Sword Roses' dealings with other students, including each other at times, revolve at least in part around BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: getting the "bad kids" to recognize that their family legacies and generational trauma don't have to define who they are and they can live for themselves instead.
