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How not to raise a child: Franz Kafka's letter to his father. 

5. Do not treat your child as a third person, but speak to them directly

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The first page of Kafka's letter to his father.

  • By Andrew Averill Correspondant

"Maddening were also those rebukes in which one was treated as a third person, in other words, considered not worthy even to be spoken to angrily; that is to say, when you would speak ostensibly to Mother but actually to me, who was sitting right there. For instance: "Of course, that's too much to expect of our worthy son," and the like."

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