Disabling everything inside a movie clip from outside

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So i have a movieClip that has insde of it 20 mc items.
I want to disabled this 20 mc items… so by doing that, I’m just going to disabled the movieClip that holds all of the 20 mc items.
But that didn’t work. example;

I have the following
menu1_mc
menu2_mc
menu3_mc

and I have a movieClip called mother_mc… inside this movieClip I have menu1, menu2, menu3. when i disabled mother_mc… the others inside don’t get disabled.

please advice.

so i have this for now…
ActionScript Code:
[FONT=Courier New][LEFT]mother_mc.[COLOR=#0000FF]enabled[/COLOR] = [COLOR=#000000]false[/COLOR];
[/LEFT]
[/FONT]