Play main scale elements?

i Discovered today that scaling a parent makes the text scale not the text container. This is ugly so I undo and build an animation inside the symbol. I can't seem to effect the elements timeline using this method.

this works to modify the text element:

sym.getSymbol("wordBox").$("wordBoxText").html("new text");

How would I target the timeline? Or better all of the timelines inside the symbol?