Sentence examples for Competent child from inspiring English sources

In the treatment context, individual competence assessment might create an opportunity in exceptional cases to allow a competent child under the age of 12 to co-decide over significant medical interventions.

"There is a growing willingness to give it over to the most competent child, regardless of whether she is female".

Like Dahl's child hero in "Danny, the Champion of the World" — who lived with his widowed father in a Gypsy caravan, and started driving when he was nine — Ophelia was a brave and competent child, who soon took to driving around the village.

Should this not also be the case with a competent child?

If the courts believe that an obligation to act in the best interests of the child trumps one to respect the wishes of a competent child it needs to be shown why this obligation does not have force in all circumstances.

Also, we're in the midst of a backlash to the ethos of the "priceless child," moving (hopefully) towards the era of the "competent" child.

With this feeling of "I can never be that competent," children come to believe that whatever competencies that they do have, which are likely more than sufficient to be a successful, happy, and contributing member of our society, simply pale in comparison to the impossibly high standards that have been set for them.

Those parents who are skilled and confident enough to take advantage of this program for their children, and their probably similarly competent children, would be a great loss to the public school system.

A recent book review by Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker compared American children unfavorably with the self-reliant and competent children of a tribe in the Peruvian Amazon; she discussed "the notion that we may be raising a generation of kids who can't, or at least won't, tie their own shoes".

The 20-year study showed that socially competent children who could cooperate with their peers without prompting, be helpful to others, understand their feelings, and resolve problems on their own, were far more likely to earn a college degree and have a full-time job by age 25 than those with limited social skills.

On the other hand, neglecting parental style tends to be uninvolved and cold with their children and tend to generate less competent children in all fields (Baumrind 1991; Sharma et al., 2015).