{"id":48806,"date":"2015-03-12T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_how_parents_create_narcissistic_children\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:00:32","slug":"washington_post_how_parents_create_narcissistic_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48806","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) How parents create narcissistic children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everybody has one raging narcissist to deal with, sooner or later &#8212; on the job, in social situations or (God forbid) in the home. How did he get this way, we wonder? What was his childhood like?<\/p>\n<p>For what appears to be the first time, researchers have taken a stab at that question by following and surveying 565 children ages 7 through 11 and their parents &#8212; 415 mothers and 290 fathers.<\/p>\n<p>The results are quite clear: Parents who &#8220;overvalue&#8221; children during this developmental stage, telling them they are superior to others and entitled to special treatment, are more likely to produce narcissistic children &#8212; who can grow up to become narcissistic adults, unless something is done about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2015\/03\/09\/how-parents-create-narcissistic-children\/?postshare=6131426066697970\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everybody has one raging narcissist to deal with, sooner or later &#8212; on the job, in social situations or (God forbid) in the home. How did he get this way, we wonder? What was his childhood like? For<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48806\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,168,104,98,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}