There isn't even an elected governing body for language, like FIFA for football. Language is NOT A GAME, with a Great Inventor in the Sky. Try a 'bottom-up' view instead. Languages evolve gradually through contact between groups of people, who need to find a way of communicating. There can only be communication if people share agreed ways of expressing meaning.
Children have no status.
Oh, unless you're a businessman and want to 'table a motion' or 'chair a meeting'. And it might be useful to have a few of their catchy political slogans. A bit mad, some of them on drugs, but we'll make an exception for culture. And we could turn it into exam fodder. Oscar Wilde has been dead so long now, we can even overlook his sexual preferences.