Nested Movieclips and Mouse Events

I have a movieclip that contains other movieclips, however the nested movieclips don't seem to detect mouse events.

Via searching, I found that only the parent can detect these events, but is there a way to pass the mouse click from the parent movie clip to the children?

I want to have a small movieclip. When you rollover it, it scales up, and then you should be able to click other various things on it. When you rollout, it scales back down.

If this is not practical, what's the best way to keep a movieclip "attached" to another and scale, without childing them?