Pint-Sized Kid/Playing With

Basic Trope: Animated children are far shorter than adults, even for their age.
 * Straight: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her eighth birthday.
 * Exaggerated: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her twelfth birthday.
 * Downplayed: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her fourth birthday.
 * Justified: The series is Super-Deformed, newborns are born relatively premature to compensate for the size of the head compared to mom's hips, and children take a while to catch up in growth. (Analysis)
 * Inverted: Alice is just starting to hit her teen-age growth spurt and she's already almost taller than her mother.
 * Subverted: ???
 * Double Subverted: ???
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Alice is half as tall as her mother on her second birthday.
 * Enforced: The writers don't want to show adult faces.
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: Being half adult height makes a two-tier Totem Pole Trench believable.
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???