I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.