HOW OFTEN DO CHILDREN REPORT THE ACTUAL TRUTH (and we ignore them)?

It's very wonderful if you watch this movie, PONYO, with your younger siblings or with your daughter(s) and/or son(s). That can really be a wonderful experience. Yes, children LOVE and adore this film, rightly so (as do MANY adults who are still children "in heart"...)-- It is one of the few movies (similar to Spielberg's "E.T.", for instance) which does NOT look down on children, be them young 5 year old boys and girls-- but actually (the film) portrays how brave, bold, full-of-faith and unselfish young children are. One of the many instances I simply LOVE in the film is that PONYO keeps telling the blunt truth to the 'supposed' grown-ups and they keep 'dismissing' her and Souske when they tell the truth (supposing that these truths are little more than childish fantasy talk...)-

-- For instance, Ponyo says (or reports) to Souske's mom, Lisa, that her father is a "sea-wizard", who 'hates humans' and keeps her locked in 'a bubble'... Lisa, no doubt, addresses no signification to this talk from Ponyo, probably thinking it's "childish fantasy talk"... Upon the first meeting of Ponyo and Lisa, Souske also tells his mother that Ponyo 'was a fish' and now has 'returned as a girl'...

Again, when Ponyo and Souske meet the strangers/other survivors when sailing on the magically enlarged boat (the family with the baby)--- Ponyo yet again tells the truth to this other family, that she was once 'a fish'... and... Probably they dismiss her as well... ha! ha!

It makes one wonder (at-least me), doesn't it? How many times do children tell us (grownups) the actual accounts of things-- the truths (however outlandish these truths must be...)-- and we simply dismiss them because these truths come out of the mouths of naive and innocent young children?

I know, speaking for myself at-least, that from now on in, I'm paying attention to what children are saying, and not 'automatically' dismissing them, or looking down on them, or on what they say.

Thank you, Mr. Hayao Miyazaki for this amazing and full-of-heart film, Ponyo. It is one of my most beloved. Thank you, Miyazaki Sir, for making us believe in the wonder and beauty and candid truth of our young children.