1.   Much of this is possible because the curriculum is geared to the developmental needs of children.

2.   Boys also have an equally strong developmental need to identify with something powerful, says pediatrician Eli Newberger, who specializes in male development.

3.   Consider, for instance, the developmental need teenagers have to separate from their parents.

4.   In the course of delivering fun, Grossman added, toys serve some developmental need.

5.   It also feeds into some developmental needs.

6.   Not only that, but most of the time, the habit serves an important purpose and a developmental need, usually for comfort.

7.   Preschool teachers will tell you that the youngest ones are not getting their developmental needs met.

8.   Schools, he says, have to focus on the developmental needs of children, or even the best teachers and most sophisticated curriculum will not be effective.

9.   That there is a developmental need to nurture is partly what draws a preteen to baby-sitting.

10.   Then she gets in a highly visible position and her developmental needs are much more visible.