Resizing parent movieclip without affecting the children

Hi all,
What's the best way of  resizing parent movieclip without affecting the children?
I have a container movieclip that resizes depending on the stage, and when I add another movieclips to it they also resize, but I want them to keep the original size,
is it possible?
Many thanks

Hi, thanks for the reply,
I already tried this way, I put a bitmap as a background of the movieclip and made only it dependent on the stage size,
something like that:
mc.bg.width = stage.stageWidth; (and not mc.width, as its width will change along with the bg width)
so when I add children to the mc, they don't change any more.
I'm a .NET developer and new to Flash platform, and I think it would be nice from the community to make a built in property for MovieClip class -
resizeChildren: Boolean
I lost a whole day on this problem, because when I drew a movieclip in a designer side I saw that its background size changed along with the size change, and when I added children to it from the code the movieclip's size changed and the background stayed still, quite strange behavior for an HTML guy
I think that it would be better to consider already drawn movieclip not to have any children yet and have its background as its part (not at(0)) and let the programmer choose later added children's resize behavior.
thanks again

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