When your toddler tugs at your hand or demands, "Look at me, look at me!" for the hundredth time, you'll be glad to know it's a positive sign. She's developing right on schedule. In the first two years of life, says Maslow, children feel powerful, "belonging needs" and make growing demands for love and attention. Around the age of 2 years, they also develop "esteem needs," craving recognition of their own importance in the world.