Sublime

How our inner child isn't just like... a very young one. It's also you as a pre-teen and teenager. Remember her??

folklore is by its nature not handed down by an authority. It is of the people, by the people—even if those people are children. So although kids may crib from pop culture and adopt things they learn from adults, making something their own and using it for their own purposes is what transmutes it into childlore.