Children have several important psychological needs that must be satisfied for healthy development. These include the need for attention, acceptance, respect, belonging, love, achievement, and friendship from parents and teachers. When these needs are met, children will have higher self-esteem and confidence, feel part of a group, and be motivated to learn and succeed. Teachers can help meet children's needs by maintaining a pleasant classroom environment, appreciating students, giving them responsibility, and providing co-curricular and extra-curricular activities based on their interests.

1. Suresh Babu.G
Asst. Professor in General
Education
CTE,CPAS Paippad

2. Psychological Needs of children
A healthy growth of your child needs to be satisfied with certain
psychological needs. To understand and promote the growth of
your child you need to understand his psychological needs:
 Attention: You need to pay attention to your child. As a child he
likes to attract the attention of his parents. When you ignore him
he will behave negatively to attract your attention. Always be
attentive to your child.
 Acceptance: A child is happy when he is accepted by his
parents. He knows how to behave in order to get the approval of
his parents. Accept your child unconditionally.

3.  Respect: A child needs to have self-respect and to be
respected. When your child does not respect himself and he
is not being respected his self-esteem will be low and he
feels helpless and down. The worst thing that can happen to
him is that he will not have the confidence to live in life.
Praise your child whenever he does something right to
boost his self-confidence.
 Belonging: Every one hopes to be part of a group. It is the
same with your child. He wants to have a place in a group.
If he is rejected or bypassed it will affect his healthy
development.

4.  Love: The emotional support and the love of his parents
stimulate the child’s mental and physical growth. Shower
him with love and tender care.
 Achievement: It is the motive of your child to learn
something and to achieve success. Provide positive
reinforcement in his quest for knowledge.
 Friendship: It is natural for your child to make friends.
Encourage your child to socialize so that he learns to get
along with others in a normal and healthy situation.

5.  Need for self assertion
 The need for self –actualization – self-expression
and self-actualisation.

6. Role of teacher in satisfying
needs
 Arranging proper classroom situation
 Maintain pleasant and happy relationship
 Appreciating students
 Giving responsibility and power to children
 Giving proper rest time
 Co-curricular activity and extra-curricular activity
based to child need

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