The document discusses the key needs of children which include needing nourishment, love, affection, security within their family, communication, curiosity to learn, approval and recognition, harmony and beauty, and play through their imagination. Children need material goods, love from their family, a sense of belonging, opportunities to explore and find answers, achievements that are acknowledged, order and aesthetics in their world, and play to cope with reality.

10. The needs of children: In review…
Material
– the needto be nourished, clothed, and be raised in a home that
flourishes with love
- Love reading about beautiful castles and palaces, lovely
gardens, delicious foodand beautiful clothing
- Fantasizingabout what they read

11. The needs of children: In review…
To love and be loved
- unsatisfiedemotional needs finds tangible expression for the
unseen craving
- learn to love when they feel loved
- Parent – child, sister-brother, grandparents-child love
- Loving experience provide affirmation of basic needs for
affection

12. The needs of children: In review…
To belong
- Need to feel secure within the family
- Discover other circles like friends in the neighborhoodor in
school
- Begins to relate interests with others
- Feels upset when excluded
- Communication breakdown makes themfeel miserable

13. The needs of children: In review…
To know
- Children are curiosity in motion
- Explores the five senses
- Do not stop until they find answers and begin a new set
- An inquisitive child is a bright child

14. The needs of children: In review…
To achieve
- Requires concrete responses likea smile and a pat on the
shoulder
- Signs of approval and craves for recognition
- Reading about the helpless and ignored who overcomes
discouragement gives thrill

15. The needs of children: In review…
For Beauty and Order
- Innate needfor harmony, beauty, and a sense of well-being
- The love for rhymes and boldcolors and bigpictures
- Manifest by God, heroes and fairy Godmothers
- Fight against the bad

16. The needs of children: In review…
For Play
- Child’s imagination is limitless
- Skips instead of just walking
- Wayof coping with reality
- Wayto deal with fears, pain, and abandonment