Finding a way to get children to understand at their level of maturity and intellect is a really important and rather difficult task, and one that needs undertaking. The characters in the shows in question have more of the latter idea of protecting a child from reality than in trying to explain it to them in a way they can understand.

So, yes, exactly, and I'm having echoes of Hogfather where DEATH talks about the little lies in preparation for the big ones.