A kid came up behind her and pretended to go for her gun.

"Hopefully some little kid can horse around in the yard and pretend they're me," she said.

But good kids that they are, they pretended not to see the wallet in my hands.

The film strains to comment on race in the way that kids can pretend to be guileless and still draw blood.

He had a 3.7 grade point average and a penchant for hat tricks, and even kids who didn't know him pretended they did.

What little kid ever pretended to be part of the lynch-mob?

A joint where kids pretended they were vampires.

The kid shrugged and pretended to light his cigarette, chewing on the sugary end.

"When we give a concert there, we let the kids sit in among the musicians and pretend to play," he said.

Pretending that it's not important just condemns kids to being held back by their backgrounds.