Think back to a moment in your childhood when an adult made you feel truly valued. A teacher who believed in you, a relative who really listened, someone who made you feel like you mattered. Odds are you still remember it. Princess Diana understood how much those moments count, and how much they add up. If we all play our part in making our children feel valued, she said, the result will be tremendous. It's a simple idea with a big claim tucked inside it. Notice the words all and tremendous. Diana isn't only speaking to parents. She's speaking to everyone, and she's promising that the effect of all of us doing this, together, would be enormous. Making a child feel valued isn't grand or complicated work. It's small, everyday warmth. But multiply it across a whole society, and Diana believed you could change the world.
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