People with a narcissistic personality tend to feel superior to others and make clear their difference and sovereignty over others. Knowing the importance of parents in the development of personality of children, we brought a brief article on how to identify the narcissists and how they can harm your children's lives. Stay tuned!
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How to spot a narcissistic parent?
Check out now how you can identify parents, grandparents or guardians who are narcissistic and harmful.
Does not allow your children to be independent
They tend to torture their children, preventing them from becoming independent and authors of their own own choices, as they see them as a threat, so they do everything they can to keep them from leaving control. In this way, they devalue their children's interests, ignore their opinions, objections, dreams and freedom of expression.
Ignore the achievements
When children achieve something by fulfilling their own will, even if it is something very good, this is not a reason for victory for a narcissistic father, since what matters to him is that his son follows his steps.
They encourage a belief in superiority in children.
Because they feel better than others, they encourage their children to feel that way too and encourage them to demonstrate to others how good they are at everything they do. In addition, narcissistic parents abhor attitudes of empathy and respect for others that do not fit their established standards.
Manipulations through blackmail
And by establishing a pattern, narcissists do everything to manipulate their children through emotional blackmail, unfair comparisons and psychological oppression.
Such oppression causes children to develop internal conflicts, stress, anxiety and even depression.
