Children Scale with Parent?

I have a container object that i add children to. I want to change the height & width of the container without the children scaling. In this case I draw a rectangle in flash which I’ll use as the container object then export for AS.

var theContainer:Sprite = new the_Container();
theContainer.height = 50;
theContainer.width = 100;

with(theContainer) {
addChild(obj1)
addChild(obj2)
}

The problem is that obj1 & obj2 will scale. I assume it’s because I have changed it’s parent’s height & width. Is there any way around this?