Have you heard? There’s a new study creating quite a buzz, probably among your friends too: It found parents have a key role in whether their children become little despots.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that parents who “overvalue” their children between the ages of 7 and 11 raised kids who scored higher on tests of narcissism. In other words, parents who described their offspring as “more special than other children” and as deserving “something extra in life” had kids who think they’re God’s gift to the world.
See Wednesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for seven ways parents can keep narcissism at bay and avoid overusing praise.