{"id":988856,"date":"2020-03-26T13:58:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/?p=988856"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:18:32","slug":"what-every-child-needs-for-good-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/blog\/projects\/what-every-child-needs-for-good-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"What Every Child Needs for Good Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Acceptance<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every child needs to believe that his parents like him for themselves, just the way he\/she is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That they like him all the time, and not only when he\/she acts according to their ideas of the way a child should act.<\/p>\n

That they always accept him, although they may often not approve of the things he does.<\/p>\n

That they will let him grow and develop in his own way.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Security<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every child needs to know:<\/p>\n

That her home is a good, safe place that she\/he can feel sure about.<\/p>\n

That he\/she belongs to a family or group; that there is a place where he\/she fits in.<\/p>\n

That there are limits to what is permitted and that the parents will hold him\/her to these limits.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Independence<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every child needs to know:<\/p>\n

That her parents want him\/her to grow up and that they will encourage him\/her to try new things.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

That they have confidence in her\/his and in her ability to do things for herself and by herself.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Guidance<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every child needs to have grown-ups around them who show by example how to get along with others.<\/p>\n

If he feels upset or angry, he needs to learn to manage his feelings and not try to hurt himself or others when he\/she has these feelings.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acceptance Every child needs to believe that his parents like him for themselves, just the way he\/she is.\u00a0 That they like him all the time, and not only when he\/she acts according to their ideas of the way a child should act. That they always accept him, although they may often not approve of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":992292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992315,"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988856\/revisions\/992315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearestrongercharity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}