You see, in our customs there are some things adults don't tell children.

Naturally no adult would tell her what she was old enough for.

On the one hand, adults tell them not to drink and drive.

That's quite unlike, say, children who play baseball, where the adults tell them what to do.

Which was what adults told children, he thought:You're too young to understand.

The adult could have told him by the scent, of course.

"For the same reason adults don't tell their children everything they want to know."

In the country, you did what adults told you to do.

Nearly every adult in America has heard of the drug and can tell you what it does.

The boogerman is not a story that adults tell to children.