Alert to backlash in response to study on narcissistic teens

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

It's easy to predict that the fallout from the study being released today in San Diego on how narcissistic college-age students are
will be a call for parenting that is less child-centered (read permissive). Surely the John Rosemonds of the world will see this as vindication. I'm bracing for an onslaught of calls for "back to spanking" parenting, among other things.

Posted by Barbara Meltz at 11:03 AM

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