I feel Mrs. Parsons children are an important part of the novel. They demonstrate how easily influenced children can be, and I believe its relevant even in todays society, children don't know to think for themselves or question what they're being told, they believe everything thats said to them. In the novel it stated that Winston was scared of the children when they started jumping around him shouting "traitor" I feel its essential to teach children to question everything and to think for themselves, because already in history we have seen situations such as the Hitler youth where children have been brainwashed and been made to think that what they were participating in genuinely was for the better, just as Mrs. Parsons children looked up to the spies and thought that their jobs were to benefit the people, hence why they are following in their footsteps at such a young age.