Au contraire!
Both Flora and I are VERY familiar with young kids, and how they care for their possessions. Your generalization is specious, as are most.
My ex-Wife and I raised an accomplished Daughter, now 41. Flora brought two excellent adult kids to our new relationship; Morgan has two children (his Son Morgan, now 10) will receive the camera package this Christmas) and Bella. Glynnis has three children, Sofia and Audrey (the camera recipients), and Son Gabriel, who is almost 6 and emphatically NOT ready for a camera, as his Mother agrees. Both big Morgan and Glynnis are teachers. Big Morgan teaches teaches K through 6, has been named Teacher of the Year at least once. He most emphatically knows how to deal with little kids!
As I stated earlier it is vital that the parents of the child be on board with "the program." Both Glynnis and Morgan know their kids and how they'll care for the cameras.
To link "artistic flair" with carelessness is unfair. My Daughter Becky began writing poetry and short stories when she was perhaps 11, when she was perhaps 12 we got her contacts; she was very careful with them. She now has a PhD in Creative Writing, many poems published - at least two in The New Yorker - has read at the 42nd Street Y in NYC, and has several published books (not ebooks) from bricks and mortar houses. She has a tenure track position at North Central College in Naperville, Il. Oddly enough Becky has no interest in photography beyond the casual phone shot. Where have I failed??