What I recall is one perennial misunderstanding of body language,
between very small children and very grown-up adults.

It's not unheard-of for very small children,
when the curtain goes up and the house lights go down,
and the children are up there on display,
to hide their faces.
And if they are little girls in skirts,
they often hide their faces by snatching at their skirts and pulling them straight up and over their faces.

Which exposes their knickers.
And the grown-ups always wonder,
what possesses the little girls to show off their knickers in that fashion?

What we have here is a failure to communicate ...