As a 5 year old kid, you realize that they aren't real. I've seen a lot of parents go a little cuckoo with fear and frustration because they don't understand t

As a 5 year old kid, you realize that they aren't real. I've seen a lot of parents go a little cuckoo with fear and frustration because they don't understand that. The kids get frustrated and stubborn because the adults don't get that it's very important to pretend that they're real. Kids can go a little overboard with the inconvenience and even danger their fantasies impose on them, but they know what's real and what's not. Their crazy parents don't give a crap about anything except their overblown fear that their kid is suffering from some delayed or derailed development that will affect their SAT scores someday. There are also parents who are fine indulging their kids' whims except where it involves fantasy. They'll smuggle a ziploc bag of corn into a restaurant because their kid won't eat mac and cheese without it (seen it happen), but they'll yell at the same kid if she takes an extra twenty seconds helping an invisible rabbit into the minivan after dinner.