What are the needs of Children ?

Question

What are the needs of children as they go through puberty and adolescence ?

Answer 1

Love and care.

Education on what is happening to them, and what is going to happen to their bodies.

Friends of the same age, and family to respect and support them.

A good school and education.

Their own time and space.

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Answer 2

Sometime ago, I was away in a meeting and staying in a motel. It was late at night, I had just returned to the motel, so I called my wife, grabbed the remote, clicked on the television, and fell into the bed. As I was talking to my wife, the channel I selected was airing a documentary contrasting the way America and China treated their animals. It was a strange film, but their premise was that how a culture treated their animals, revealed much about the culture and it's values.

In America, we were shown the finest veterinarian facilities, and the great amounts of money and care people were willing to invest in their pets. There were people who included their family pets in their wills. We were shown pet psychologist, pet funerals, and pet cemeteries. Only in America!

Then the focus turned to China. I wasn't prepared for what I was about to see. The animals we keep as pets over here, are the animals that end up on their dinner tables over there. Of course I knew that, but it was the inhumane way they treated the animals as they prepared them for consumption, that turned my stomach. I will spare you the details, but as I was talking to my wife, I had to turn off the television, get up, and walk around the room to over come a sick feeling I had on the inside.

Then recently in Australia, Bro. Fairbanks (a missionary sponsored by Rodgers Baptist Church) placed before me an article from the Creation Research Institute that took me back. They are now selling and consuming human fetuses in China. The fetus material is provided of course by the tremendous abortion industry in China, since families are limited by the powers that be as to how many children they can have. It is not uncommon in China to see women trying to give their children away to Americans or anybody who will take them. Consuming fetus material is supposed to have life giving and medicinal properties.

While we were recently in China, on several occasions, we encountered American couples who were in the process of adopting, or trying to adopt, Chinese children. As I took all this in, I realized that a culture and country is measured to a greater degree not by how they treat their animals, but by how they treat their children.

Our text reveals one great truth. The difference between people, cultures, and nations, as to their values, does not lie so much in the people themselves, but in their relationship to God and His Word! Obviously America has it's own sin and problems, however if we do better by our children, or by our animals for that matter, it is solely because of the Bible and our faith in Jesus Christ.

Christianity has in the past at least shaped and molded our nation in ways we have all come to take for granted. When we as a nation, and as a people, walk away from God and His Word, we walk away from the value of life itself. It's a sad day in America when children are slaughtered, abandoned, and forsaken, on the alters of materialism and the triune humanistic god of me, myself and I.

Listen to me, children are important! How we treat our children is a reflection of our innermost self. Here in this passage, we observe in the lives of two godly women, Elizabeth and Mary, that children were very important to them.

In this message, I want to bring to you four reasons, WHY CHILDREN ARE IMPORTANT, as we consider these two women, Elizabeth and Mary.

Answer 3

Food, water and shelter

Answer 4

Unconditional love, guidence, health care, food, water, clothing, shelter, education, socialization, and parents who know how to parent!

Answer 5

I think one of the most important things a child that age needs is to feel they have someone that listens to them and someone they can trust and really come to with problems. Also freedom- I'm not talking running the streets- but if something comes up and they ask if they can do it, really consider it before saying no. I found my daughter surprised me in many situations and I was pleased at some of the decisions she has made.

Answer 6

children need love and to feel needed and of course security if your child is in another room he/she will come to where u are to make sure you r still there my child loves a good long hug now and then its great

Answer 7

care, love, clothing, guidence,water, food and education i think that also need when they r not puberty...