There, they 'play with it,' using their imagination until they work out a way to make it fit. Children go through a very high rate of new experiences and may frequently dissociate as a normal response to an unfamiliar event. They are continually modifying and expanding their system, or conscious mind. This is a process of growth and learning. As they mature, children may dissociate less and less, because there are fewer and fewer experiences that don't fit their conscious system.
Children rely extensively on adults fo rinterpretation.
Their developing comprehension is largely fashioned after that of their parents or caregivers. If caregivers are emotionally damaged, their own skewed view of the world is imposed upon their children. Parents in destructive families have unresolved emotional issues that are being held in their own unconscious. They couldn't or wouldn't find a way to make these emotions fit their conscious system. Instead, the unresolved issues are offloaded onto their children.