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37 reviews29 followers
August 3, 2021
Precious ✨

Instead of condemning and criticizing others, perhaps we it would be better to try to understand them, to try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness, rather than contempt...!!!
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92 reviews5 followers
December 9, 2020
A short story that will make me cry if I read in the middle of the night. Talking about a father regretting the way he raises his child and his willingness to change parenting method.
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129 reviews1 follower
April 7, 2024
This made me break down crying in the middle of How to Win Friends and Influence People.
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6 reviews
February 15, 2025
this short story was so beautiful. it’s about a father who regrets how he has condemned his son for lacking manners and looking unpresentable. but, the father realizes that he shouldn’t expect a man out of his son since he is still youthful. the father later vows to see his son as a little boy and become a better father by suffering when he suffers, and by laughing with him instead of scolding him so much. “he is nothing but a boy- a little boy!”
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November 19, 2021
This is about a letter a father wrote to his son when his son was sleeping , About a father want to say in his heart. The father always mad at the son :about washing face ,wearing shoes ,throw things on the floor ... Well ,the father use Adult standards to treat children ,and now he know the proplem.
27 reviews
February 23, 2025
I crack up reading the reviews for this short story. Anyone who wept while reading these three trite pages needs to either have their antidepressant dosage upped or needs a swift kick in the balls (get it, because you don't have any). There is a reason this author is best known for writing advertising copy. Pure garbage.
2 reviews1 follower
January 13, 2021
This short story is about a father who expects too much of his young son and treats him harshly, but comes to realize that he is but a baby with a big heart. He goes to his boy's bedside while he is sleeping and apologizes for his parenting methods and promises to be a better father.
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35 reviews3 followers
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June 15, 2025
“Mi sto abituando trovare colpe, a sgridare; è questa la ricompensa per il fatto che sei un bambino, non un adulto? Non che non rivolessi bene, beninteso: solo che mi aspettavo troppo dai tuoi pochi anni e insistevo stupidamente a misurarti col metro della mie età.”
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302 reviews1 follower
April 2, 2020
Very short. It was in another book I have to read, ‘how to win friends and influence people’. Honestly really loved it.
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1,339 reviews11 followers
September 25, 2020
This is really a beautiful story in which a Father comes to realise how he's become mean to his own son and apologizes to the sleeping boy.
56 reviews6 followers
May 29, 2024
Found this in How to Win Friends and Influence People, it gave great insight and was a very nice piece.
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39 reviews2 followers
July 30, 2024
Great advice for parents we forget everyone is human and makes mistakes we should maybe start listening instead of judging.
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76 reviews4 followers
July 16, 2025
What a lovely short story 🥹
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275 reviews7 followers
September 3, 2025
I would give this to every parent (to be) to print out re-read it daily when they struggle, when they face issues.


Short but perfectly depicts what a child could never understand until they are in these same shoes.
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