That is an example of 'reversible thinking'. I recommend it. True statements are often, with a shift of perspective, ALSO true when reversed. They are our past. They are 'innocent', unaware of 'good' and 'evil', until we 'clone' or 'adulterate' them to talk and think like us.
Children are also our future - our next incarnations.
If we can see ourselves AS children, and vice versa, we might evolve together, learning with and from each other. We may become, not 'we', 'you' and 'they', but 'us'. As 'us', we might survive. There has been much research in recent years on the development of thinking skills. Of particular interest to practitioners of Philosophy for Children is the work of Deanna Kuhn.