Know Your Child's Most Important Developmental Need

A major misunderstanding of child rearing has been the idea that meeting a child's needs is an end in itself for the purpose of his mental health. 

Parents have not understood that this is but one step in social development, the goal of which is to help the child begin to consider others. 

As a result, they often have not considered their child but have instead allowed their child's reality to take precedence, out of a fear of damaging him emotionally.

Your Child’s Needs at Stages of Development

At each stage of development your child needs different resources from his family. During your first year, a variety of experiences and the availability of his parents for attachment are primary. 

During his second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During his years prior to school entrance, information that persuades him that he is loved becomes critical, and during his school years, it is important for him to believe that he can succeed at the tasks he wants to master.

Your Child’s Most Important Need

Overall, I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they own or any skill that they learn. 

They need to feel that they enhance the life of someone else, that they are needed. Who, better than parents, can let them know that?

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