How do very young child actors learn their lines?

How do very young child actors learn their lines?

When they get older and they can read, it's easier because you can actually get them the copy before they come to the audition. If it's more than a few sentences, they can work with it. We try to encourage the parents not to work with them because what will happen is that the children will parrot the way the parent says it. That will backfire nine times out of ten because we don't want a kid saying it the way a parent would say it or an adult would say it. We want the kid saying it the way they would say it. So, often I will tell a child what I need them to say, and then if they can't remember it word for word, what they give us back is sometimes even better. They just say it in their own words. They tell us why they like the product, or what they're going to be doing. If they can remember what we've told them line by line, great. If not, they can tell us in their own words, and sometimes that's better.