Backwards relation not showing up via related_name in inherited models

I'm using Django 1.6 RC1 and Python 3.3 with the following models:

class StepBlueprint(models.Model):

    parents = models.ManyToManyField('self', blank=True, null=True, related_name='children')

    name   = models.CharField( max_length=100 )

    def __str__(self):

        return self.name

class FlowBlueprint(StepBlueprint):

    description = models.TextField()

        

    def get_children(self):

        print("DEBUG: processing ({0})".format(self))

        print(dir(self))

        # why isn't this working??  this is what related_name is supposed to provide

        return self.children

When I call get_children() here, I get the following:

DEBUG: processing (Prodigal)

['DoesNotExist', 'MultipleObjectsReturned', 'TYPES', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_base_manager', '_default_manager', '_deferred', '_do_insert', '_do_update', '_get_FIELD_display', '_get_next_or_previous_by_FIELD', '_get_next_or_previous_in_order', '_get_pk_val', '_get_unique_checks', '_meta', '_perform_date_checks', '_perform_unique_checks', '_save_parents', '_save_table', '_set_pk_val', '_state', 'build', 'clean', 'clean_fields', 'commandblueprint', 'conditional_code', 'date_error_message', 'delete', 'description', 'flow_set', 'flowblueprint', 'full_clean', 'get_children', 'get_command', 'get_type_display', 'id', 'name', 'objects', 'parents', 'pk', 'prepare_database_save', 'save', 'save_base', 'serializable_value', 'standalonetool_set', 'stepblueprint_ptr', 'stepblueprint_ptr_id', 'type', 'unique_error_message', 'validate_unique']

Traceback (most recent call last):

  [ call stack ... ]

    return self.children

AttributeError: 'FlowBlueprint' object has no attribute 'children'

What am I doing wrong here?  From within the FlowBlueprint object I want to be able to get the backwards relation of all those objects pointing to it, and it seems like related_name is supposed to provide that.  Its value doesn't show up in the dir() output.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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