"Then I guess he got really sick, because he started taking a lot of medicine. It must have been a pretty bad cold, 'cause he was always taking more and more medicine."
— Hobbes about an older Calvin, in the Calvin and Hobbes fanfic A Special Place to Meet
"My mommy is always on the phone with [Jonathan]. But [she's] always gone and comes home sweaty and panting and her clothes are all messed up. Maybe she goes for long runs."
— Angelica Pickles, Rugrats fanfic Angelica's Diary
A child is most probably not going to ask "Mommy, why are your eyes wet?" when they see their mother crying. They've cried themselves since the day they were born; they know full well that tears mean distress. They might be confused the first time they encounter someone crying tears of happiness, since a person is showing all the signs of distress and yet there's clearly nothing to be distressed about.
Likewise, a child is not going to see an adult in pain and ask, "Daddy, why are you acting funny?" Aside from the fact that children are freaked out by things that start acting in strange and erratic ways (ESPECIALLY things they've generally come to trust as safe), even the youngest child knows pain and how people act when they're in it- they have, after all, been in pain themselves.
— Springhole article on children.
"Cool tattoos, mister. But I think your tattoo artist forgot to give this lady clothes. Don't worry, I'll fix it."
— Lana Loud, The Loud House, "Tripped!"
"Everybody's hugging!"
— Ralph Wiggum about adult comics, The Simpsons
"Dad rapes Leni too, though Leni, bless her retard heart, doesn't even realise it's rape; she just thinks Dad loves her enough to give her 'kissies'."
— Lincoln Loud, The Loud House fanfiction The Edgy House ( it later turns out to just be The Aristocrats joke)
Then they hugged and stuff and then they wanted to run around naked.
— Unnamed Little Girl, Rude Preschool Person
And I've been meaning to tell you
I think your house is haunted
Your dad is always mad
And that must be why
I think your house is haunted
Your dad is always mad
And that must be why
— Taylor Swift, "seven"
