Kids are competent, they are born with human rights, and it is our duty to see each person, also each child as competent.
People think certain reactions and development moment makes children competent (Bukowski, 2003), but this is against Human rights laws, children are at all-time competent (Ruggiero, et al, N.D.). To see it this way as the human rights demand, all kids are competent is a duty, and means we can never take away their competence, who does is violating and abusing power. We even have to protect children from these crimes done to them, so children's rights come with the duty to help children get their competence and all their human rights at all times, also help them get their wishes done. Children's rights are not just made to look good, as if we give them competence, no, we have them so they get their will done, and are respected with competence. There is no discrimination allowed, abuse is easy by adults, but also punishable.
We need to look at it as always they are competent, and we must interpret them, correctly, not our wishes we must hear in them, but their wishes.
And thus understand all these different behaviors, and not as incompetent, but we have to precisely understand what they mean and interpret the meaning of it.
Humans must have a better life than animals, but if your cat seems incompetent or if your cat seems to want something, it gives a different reaction from you. The cat remains competent, has a will, and can want something, or express something.
It shows our own “incompetence”, not reading precisely the behaviors of children. Not able to place them, not incompetent, in general, but the precise behavior that is not functioning correctly, placing the reactions and behaviors of others.
It is like punishing a child, for behavior, not as a person. The mature would not even need punishment, but definitely will not punish the person, but will help understand the behavior and changes the behavior, without influencing, interfering, nor forcing the child.
So, we read the behavior and level of people's understanding and crimes when they violate human rights, and cannot understand children are competent.
Human rights have a lot of ways how the children get their information and are kept safe, in the extension of the home, without interference, forces, nor influences from others, especially not by the government, as no one is a possession from the government, your passport does not make you their possession, also their only job is providing services for the human rights, so you have all-access, but you only use this when you want too, there is no right to force, there is the right to join, but that never is allowed to be forced.
References
Bukowski, W. (2003). What Does It Mean to Say That Aggressive Children Are Competent or Incompetent? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 49(3), 390–400. Retrieved December 8, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/23096061
Ruggiero, R. (N.D.)Children’s Human Rights — An Interdisciplinary Introduction. The University of Geneve through Coursera. Retrieved from https://www.coursera.org/learn/childrens-rights