Tender Loving Care for Li'l Ones

1. Unconditional love
   
2. Healthful, balanced meals
3. Regular, adegquate sleep
4. Frequent (daily) physical exercise
   
5. The freedom to be creative
6. Time to interact with their peers and friends
7. Love: Hugs, kisses, shoulder rubs, snuggles and other nonverbal expressions of love from people who have their permission
   
8. Consistent, appropriate discipline
9. To be listened to and heard
10. The freedom to Laugh out loud
11. To feel important
12. Responsibilities appropriate to their age and development levels
13. Balance in their lives
14. To be talked to, not talked down to
15. To feel valued
16. To make mistakes; to be taught how to learn from their mistakes
17. To be treated with courtesy and respect
18. To be safe and taught what safety means
19. To have their feelings validated and affirmed
20. Consistent, predictable limits
21. Honesty and truth
22. To be taught what they don't know
23. Flexibility
24. Physical and mental relaxation
    
25. Intellectual stimulation and challenges

(A Leader's Guide to Just Because I Am, copyright 1994 Lauren Murphy Payne and Claudia Rohling. Free Spirit Publishing Inc.)