Raising Emotionally Healthy Children: Feeling Important
Why Kids Needs to Feel Important
Second in a Series of Articles on Raising Emotionally Healthy Children
Guest Post from The Children’s Project
Read the first article in this series: Respect
Another critical emotional need of children is to feel important. Feeling important refers to a child’s need to feel: “I have value. I am useful. I have power. I am somebody.” The following are examples of how parents obstruct or enhance a child’s need to feel Important.
