I had to cut mine off. The stress was too much for me. He moved to another state. I wish him well and I pray for the people in the state he's now living in. God help them all.
@@evemoore6363 hi, thank you for sharing. Sorry that you had to cut your child off. Sadly it is often the only way to deal with them while keeping yourself safe.
@@NarcissisticAbuseHealing Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This video, especially the end part, was so eye-opening as a parent, and will help in my healing. ❤
@@rainymcg I put up with way to much for too long because I wanted to have a relationship with my grandchildren. It doesn't get better. Narcissists use children as weapons
Absolutely an Exceptional and understandable video describing the adult narcissist child!!!! I've been wondering when, when, when will someone address the adult child narcissist and how they treat their scapegoat parent. My X was a narcissist. So I've been deeply saddened that my adult children are narcissists. I Love them very much, but I've had to go N/C. And I've had a grandchild kept from me. I've been studying about narcissists for about 7 years now.
Hi. Thank you for sharing. Sorry that you had to go no contact with your children. Glad you found the video helpful and understandable. Wishing you a wonderful day.
This same here there is NOT enough advice on this subject. What about the high conflict parents who raised them, and they aren’t your bio kids trying to sabotage your life? It’s so challenging. Especially when the parent your with was abused by the other parent and the children showed signs but wouldn’t accept help as nothing is wrong. And yet all of them exhibit toxic nasty traits. Is so hard losing your children along with a toxic ex. The hurt never stops even after divorce.
I wish survivors had channels to talk about exes and children and new blended families with this issue. The government helps facilitate narcissistic abuse by making people co parent with unwell parents who the often pass the curse and or the abuse to their kids.
So much truth in this video. Our adult child has given us grief for years before we realised what she is (low self esteem narcissist). The last big abuse was over something that was all her own fault but blamed on my wife (who is the calmest kind person) who in turn tried explaining rationally what had happened and in the end I picked up our bags and said I had had enough and was leaving. This caused an outpouring of lies and vile accusations shouting loudly, none of it true. Treading on eggshells is something we have done for over 40 years and our grandchildren have on occasions been with held from us.
Hi. Thank you for sharing. Unfortunately there are no easy answers and often one has to try to appease them just so that you can see your grandchildren.
I was raped at 15 by a narcissist maybe more on the sociopathic scale... I gave birth to a narcissitic son who no matter what I did to help... he just got worse... he knows nothing about how he came into this world... he blamed me all his life for all his evil choices while I did my very best... I was not perfect but I was not a bad parent...he slandered me and lied and abused me verbally for decades.. I have finally decided enough.. the rest of my years I want peace now. I am done! I leave him in God's hands.
Hi. I am sorry you experienced so much pain and abuse. You are an amazing person for trying to help your son. But yes, there comes a point when it is best to let go. I am glad you are able to move forward and are now looking at what is best for you. May your life ahead be filled with happiness.
I think it speaks volumes that you haven't let your son know about the evil way he came into the world. I hope you manage to find some peace and happiness in your life I think you deserve it after what you've been through.
God Bless you, I am doing the exact same thing currently...may God help them, as he helps us accept this, know that we have done ALL we can, and be at peace.
This is the video I had been searching for. Just to hear and see the comments of other parents in my shoes right now. Thank you all for sharing. This builds fortitude and affirms the need to allow them to go through their own consequences for even their own sake and hope. Everything else is a game.
My son did not display any personality disorder and actually was a delightful and easy to deal with child. No tantrums, no attention-seeking, no problems of any kind. He began developing psychopathic/narcissistic traits from age about age 15 when his behavioral problems began, increasingly displaying his father's behaviour albeit a bit less callous. His father was a manipulative, abusive son, then an abusive husband, and callous, abusive son-in-law. and shows psychopathic and narcissistic traits. Hence he isn't my husband anymore. From my husband's family, I learned that the maternal grandfather was an abusive controlling husband with a sour temper. My husband's female cousin, the granddaughter, is nasty and abusive to her mother. Credit to the mother, she handles her daughter's verbal abuse with surprising calm and dignity. The girl's brother, raised by the same mother, is a delightful and wise man with a sunny disposition. Now, a good thoughtful husband and has always been a good son. Looks like there is genetic predisposition in this family.
Hi. Thank you for sharing. Sorry about your son. Note that children by the age of 2 already have a fixed image of what each parent looks like. Such as what does a man and a women look like, behave, do, and say. If his dad was in his life until around 2 years of age then he would have formed a solid basis for how to be a man, which would be a lot like his dad. If his dad then left when he was still a child he may not have had any reference on how to be as a teen and could have responded to his environment that sounds like it was supportive. But by age 15 he realized he is becoming a man and automatically his subconscious may have steered him to act like his dad for that is his reference of how a man acts. That is a theory as to why he may have changed at that age. But there may have been outside influences at school such as friends or another family member as well.
Hi. Thank you. I am glad you found the videos helpful. And that you can now live your life to the fullest without being held back by feelings of guilt for cutting contact. Wishing you a wonderful day
Thank you. It's actually great to watch a video where the professional is sticking to the facts and not being insulting about the narcissist. My 37 year old son is the narcissist in my life and I'm only just starting to realise how I need to behave and that it's perfectly alright, in fact necessary, to abruptly end zoom calls or hang up the phone without warning - sticking around means I will be insulted. I still have hope that he will change as he does have some lovely characteristics but I now know this may be how it is forever, which may mean the eventual end of our relationship. I'm only just seeing that his father was a narcissist - he barely knew his father - and I can see how the narcissist was formed by a deep and unbearable shame for both of them.
Yes they with hold their children, our grandchildren from us and eventually they become divorced, while we watch helplessly as our grandchildren are hurting and confused
That’s a video topic I would like to see: How to Handle Your Adult Narcissistic Child’s Divorce.” I’m sure one is in the making and I’ll need to be prepared for all kinds of manipulation and chaos.
Thank you so much for this video! It confirmed a lot for me, and so much more. Very much appreciated. After reading comments I see so many good people here, and my heart aches for all of you. God Bless you!
Hi, thank you for commenting. Glad you found the video informative. Dealing with a child who is narcissistic, or who has married a narcissistic person is very hard.
It's heartbreaking to set that boundary with my children because they are MY flesh and blood, but the manipulative people in my life, I've just had to pull away. It's been so hard, but I know I am safer.
Thank you so much for this video! You've put a name to what I've been dealing with for many years and I believe this could be the beginning of healing for me!
@@NarcissisticAbuseHealing Thank you! Because of your work and seeing others work through it too, I feel less alone and encouraged to keep trying to focus on working on me. I pray my son will want better for himself, but I realize now, I can't make that happen. It's not in my power.🥺
In correction you said don’t use others against the Narcissist adult, child as they will never trust you again ) wait Narcissist don’t trust you anyway period .
Narcissists trust their victims and that's why they chose their targets. They also know those they target won't destroy them or go to their evil extremes. Narcissists actually trust their victims too much
And sometimes one parent was and one not and the one parent is abused by children and the abusive parent. No one wins the narc will hit a road black once they age and the children will continue the pattern in their lives
I really needed to hear this! I am 65-year-old woman and 5 years ago my daughter asked me to move in with her as I am disabled and she said I would never have to worry about being evicted or throwing away my money. Fast forward 5 yeand now she is saying we had a gentleman's agreement as I tried to leave because she started becoming mentally and physically abusive towards me. But the second time I was firm enough to take the step to get away and not be abused again. Unfortunately I am in my car as I wasn't given any time to search for a place. I lost a lot of money living with her and now I'm homeless.
Hi. Sorry that you experienced 5 years of abuse from your daughter and are now homeless. Unfortunately it is a common reaction from narcissistic people that when they do not get their way they try to punish you and make you feel sorry for crossing them. I am however glad that you are free now. This has worked for me in the past when I feel overwhelmed and unsure of the future. It may help for you. I hug myself or just hug a pillow and say to myself. Yes it is scary. And I don’t know yet how I am going to fix things. But I know I will find a way to get through this. And it is going to be okay.
@@NarcissisticAbuseHealingThank you so much.. I just woke and my first thought is how am I going to get through this. I'm going to get my hug first thing this morning. I'm so Grateful for you.🙏 Much Love ❤
Dealing with my adopted son with this kind of abuse. He has no empathy whatsoever. And he is proud of it. We estranged for 7 years. I got him back to be saved from my narc husband. But it turns out that he is the same. Narc and full of hate. We are now together for 4 years in a foreign country and all he does is give me troubles. I have decided to bring him back to our country. This is what he keeps saying anyway. I am done with narcissistic relationship. If he he wants to change and go through therapy, I will help but if not, I am letting go. BTW, he is now 17 years old and won't study. He thinks he is an adult. And can disrespect me because i am not his mother. Not on my clock Enough.
I'm pretty sure my 32 year-old daughters the malignant narcissist and she's a drug addict. And like you said I always wonder what I did wrong I think I spoiled her gave her too much hraccess custody of my grandson that I raised for the first seven years of his life she was playing for year-and-a-half until about six months ago I petition the courts to get her video visits now she's totally turned on me won't even let me tell my grandson I love him or happy birthday today because her ex I also think it is a narcissist cuz he's a controlling mean neither of these two people have empathy for anybody I don't even think he wanted my grandson I think he just wanted to win when he took me to court. But he's a Hermit reclusive quiet and controlling and tricky and sneaky my daughter is attention seeker was a stripper worked in Bottle clubs adult entertainment and she is mean and hateful unless you want something I haven't been allowed to see my grandson 2 years and it's really killing me. I tried to keep her around and hopes that I will be allowed to see him. I was promised I would be included when I went and got the packet filed papers paid to subpoena the Father the day she got visits the day of Court once again I was abused and it wasn't about me and I need to know my place and just because I raised him and had custody for 7 years too bad for me. But I ramble Love Today is the 12th birthday I'm missing his whole life but I just don't know how to handle this
I'm going through this with my oldest son. He won't budge in his behavior. Uses the grandchild to get to me. I just dont speak to him anymore. It's just too much negativity. He began to make me sick and sad because he knows I love him so much. All this began when he started dating and then married a chic almost my age. She behaves like a narcissistic witch. Like literally practicing witch craft. Smh
Hi, thank you for commenting. Sorry that you are experiencing the abuse you are from your son. It can be very difficult when it is a family member who you love. Especially when you know they were not like this and are manipulated by someone else.
The genome has been sequenced for around a decade now. There are 400 or 500 genetic conditions that can be screened for using this information and narcissism would be one of them if it was “genetic“. It’s understandable why someone with a narcissistic child would not want to acknowledge behavioral heritability and next bring up the child’s temperament. Newsflash: it’s a parent’s job to accommodate their child’s temperament without projecting or displacing their own triggered reaction onto that temperament. A narcissistic adult child got that way on their caregiver’s watch. Where the caregiver themselves was the narcissist, failure to recognize their own accountability is anticipated. A narcissistic parent will project the narcissist label onto a kid standing up for himself, enforcing a boundary, or objecting to disrespect, so (like narcissists’ assessments of others and anyone’s self-reported self-assessment) perhaps these kids are narcissists but the overwhelming likelihood is a parent watching this kind of video is (also) a narcissist whose assessment of their kids has no credibility.
Hi. Nurture plays a large role in the making of a narcissist, thus yes a narcissistic child often has a narcissistic parent. However. Those parents would rarely bother to watch a video like this. It often happens that one parent is a narcissist and the other parent normal or co-dependent. Those are more the parents who watch videos like these to understand why their child is who they are despite the love they gave their child. Yes you can say they allowed the narcissist to abuse them and the child. But most of a child’s temperament is set by age 2 to 4. And many victims of narcissistic abuse don’t know they are being abused. Especially when it comes to emotional and mental abuse and if they came out of a toxic family where such behaviors were normal to them. Genetics play a role. But does not define a narcissist. It just makes them more susceptible to becoming narcissists.
Are you dealing with a adult narcissistic child? What advice do you have?
You can't change them. You can just set your boundaries which will probably mean being cut off
I had to cut mine off. The stress was too much for me. He moved to another state. I wish him well and I pray for the people in the state he's now living in. God help them all.
@@evemoore6363 hi, thank you for sharing. Sorry that you had to cut your child off. Sadly it is often the only way to deal with them while keeping yourself safe.
@@NarcissisticAbuseHealing Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This video, especially the end part, was so eye-opening as a parent, and will help in my healing. ❤
@@rainymcg I put up with way to much for too long because I wanted to have a relationship with my grandchildren. It doesn't get better. Narcissists use children as weapons
Absolutely an Exceptional and understandable video describing the adult narcissist child!!!! I've been wondering when, when, when will someone address the adult child narcissist and how they treat their scapegoat parent. My X was a narcissist. So I've been deeply saddened that my adult children are narcissists. I Love them very much, but I've had to go N/C. And I've had a grandchild kept from me. I've been studying about narcissists for about 7 years now.
Hi. Thank you for sharing. Sorry that you had to go no contact with your children. Glad you found the video helpful and understandable. Wishing you a wonderful day.
@@NarcissisticAbuseHealing Aaahhh thank you!!! I wish you a blessed and fulfilling life!!! God Bless you!!! 🤗💞
This same here there is NOT enough advice on this subject. What about the high conflict parents who raised them, and they aren’t your bio kids trying to sabotage your life? It’s so challenging. Especially when the parent your with was abused by the other parent and the children showed signs but wouldn’t accept help as nothing is wrong. And yet all of them exhibit toxic nasty traits. Is so hard losing your children along with a toxic ex. The hurt never stops even after divorce.
I wish survivors had channels to talk about exes and children and new blended families with this issue. The government helps facilitate narcissistic abuse by making people co parent with unwell parents who the often pass the curse and or the abuse to their kids.
So much truth in this video. Our adult child has given us grief for years before we realised what she is (low self esteem narcissist). The last big abuse was over something that was all her own fault but blamed on my wife (who is the calmest kind person) who in turn tried explaining rationally what had happened and in the end I picked up our bags and said I had had enough and was leaving. This caused an outpouring of lies and vile accusations shouting loudly, none of it true. Treading on eggshells is something we have done for over 40 years and our grandchildren have on occasions been with held from us.
Hi. Thank you for sharing. Unfortunately there are no easy answers and often one has to try to appease them just so that you can see your grandchildren.
I was raped at 15 by a narcissist maybe more on the sociopathic scale... I gave birth to a narcissitic son who no matter what I did to help... he just got worse... he knows nothing about how he came into this world... he blamed me all his life for all his evil choices while I did my very best... I was not perfect but I was not a bad parent...he slandered me and lied and abused me verbally for decades.. I have finally decided enough.. the rest of my years I want peace now. I am done! I leave him in God's hands.
Hi. I am sorry you experienced so much pain and abuse. You are an amazing person for trying to help your son. But yes, there comes a point when it is best to let go. I am glad you are able to move forward and are now looking at what is best for you. May your life ahead be filled with happiness.
I think it speaks volumes that you haven't let your son know about the evil way he came into the world. I hope you manage to find some peace and happiness in your life I think you deserve it after what you've been through.
God Bless you, I am doing the exact same thing currently...may God help them, as he helps us accept this, know that we have done ALL we can, and be at peace.
@@lynnciaccio God bless you also! Yes! God knows I did my best!
@@FacingTheView Yes, that is wise. Thank u. God bless u!
This is the video I had been searching for. Just to hear and see the comments of other parents in my shoes right now. Thank you all for sharing. This builds fortitude and affirms the need to allow them to go through their own consequences for even their own sake and hope. Everything else is a game.
I saw this in our children when they were very young, they grew into very selfish people and hated my attempts to teach them kind and loving actions.
My son did not display any personality disorder and actually was a delightful and easy to deal with child. No tantrums, no attention-seeking, no problems of any kind. He began developing psychopathic/narcissistic traits from age about age 15 when his behavioral problems began, increasingly displaying his father's behaviour albeit a bit less callous.
His father was a manipulative, abusive son, then an abusive husband, and callous, abusive son-in-law. and shows psychopathic and narcissistic traits. Hence he isn't my husband anymore. From my husband's family, I learned that the maternal grandfather was an abusive controlling husband with a sour temper. My husband's female cousin, the granddaughter, is nasty and abusive to her mother. Credit to the mother, she handles her daughter's verbal abuse with surprising calm and dignity. The girl's brother, raised by the same mother, is a delightful and wise man with a sunny disposition. Now, a good thoughtful husband and has always been a good son.
Looks like there is genetic predisposition in this family.
Hi. Thank you for sharing. Sorry about your son. Note that children by the age of 2 already have a fixed image of what each parent looks like. Such as what does a man and a women look like, behave, do, and say. If his dad was in his life until around 2 years of age then he would have formed a solid basis for how to be a man, which would be a lot like his dad. If his dad then left when he was still a child he may not have had any reference on how to be as a teen and could have responded to his environment that sounds like it was supportive. But by age 15 he realized he is becoming a man and automatically his subconscious may have steered him to act like his dad for that is his reference of how a man acts. That is a theory as to why he may have changed at that age. But there may have been outside influences at school such as friends or another family member as well.
You have helped me alot, now I will leave my life to the fullest without feeling the guilt of cutting contact .
Hi. Thank you. I am glad you found the videos helpful. And that you can now live your life to the fullest without being held back by feelings of guilt for cutting contact. Wishing you a wonderful day
Thank you. It's actually great to watch a video where the professional is sticking to the facts and not being insulting about the narcissist. My 37 year old son is the narcissist in my life and I'm only just starting to realise how I need to behave and that it's perfectly alright, in fact necessary, to abruptly end zoom calls or hang up the phone without warning - sticking around means I will be insulted. I still have hope that he will change as he does have some lovely characteristics but I now know this may be how it is forever, which may mean the eventual end of our relationship. I'm only just seeing that his father was a narcissist - he barely knew his father - and I can see how the narcissist was formed by a deep and unbearable shame for both of them.
Im going through this now, and yes, she is using my 6yr grandson as a pawn. Its absolutely heartbreaking
Hi. Thank you for sharing. Sorry that you are going through this. And having your grandson used as a pawn.
Yes they with hold their children, our grandchildren from us and eventually they become divorced, while we watch helplessly as our grandchildren are hurting and confused
That’s a video topic I would like to see: How to Handle Your Adult Narcissistic Child’s Divorce.”
I’m sure one is in the making and I’ll need to be prepared for all kinds of manipulation and chaos.
Yoh! This talks very well of my adult daughter. Am now taking action. No helping her financially anymore.
Thank you so much for this video! It confirmed a lot for me, and so much more. Very much appreciated. After reading comments I see so many good people here, and my heart aches for all of you. God Bless you!
Hi, thank you for commenting. Glad you found the video informative. Dealing with a child who is narcissistic, or who has married a narcissistic person is very hard.
It's heartbreaking to set that boundary with my children because they are MY flesh and blood, but the manipulative people in my life, I've just had to pull away. It's been so hard, but I know I am safer.
Genetics
My father and son are exactly the same.. horrible
very useful, keeping them away from me is my problem, going to have to move .
I have to move but they have everything in a house that I live in with them that I own they only buy things for themselves
Thank you so much for this video! You've put a name to what I've been dealing with for many years and I believe this could be the beginning of healing for me!
Hi. You’re welcome. Sorry that you are experiencing abuse from your child.
@@NarcissisticAbuseHealing Thank you! Because of your work and seeing others work through it too, I feel less alone and encouraged to keep trying to focus on working on me. I pray my son will want better for himself, but I realize now, I can't make that happen. It's not in my power.🥺
I feel the same way, I think it will help me have strength to move on.
Really good explanation thank you - so helpful.
Thank you. Glad you found the video helpful.
In correction you said don’t use others against the Narcissist adult, child as they will never trust you again ) wait Narcissist don’t trust you anyway period .
Narcissists trust their victims and that's why they chose their targets. They also know those they target won't destroy them or go to their evil extremes. Narcissists actually trust their victims too much
Narcissists pretend they don't trust their victims. They do trust them and that's how they knew they could get away with abusing them.
Such a constructive and informative video. Thank you so much.
You’re welcome. Glad you found the video helpful. Wishing you a wonderful day.
@@NarcissisticAbuseHealing Thank you.
Wonderful Video...Thank you !!
Thank you.
Great information, thank you for your help. 👍
Thank you. Glad you found the video helpful.
Wonderful content & Ive been on a LOT of NA sites for years!
Hi. Thank you. Glad you find the videos informative.
Sometimes the parent is the narcissist and thinks the child is the narcissist. Sometimes they’re both correct
Very well put.
And sometimes one parent was and one not and the one parent is abused by children and the abusive parent. No one wins the narc will hit a road black once they age and the children will continue the pattern in their lives
I really needed to hear this! I am 65-year-old woman and 5 years ago my daughter asked me to move in with her as I am disabled and she said I would never have to worry about being evicted or throwing away my money. Fast forward 5 yeand now she is saying we had a gentleman's agreement as I tried to leave because she started becoming mentally and physically abusive towards me. But the second time I was firm enough to take the step to get away and not be abused again. Unfortunately I am in my car as I wasn't given any time to search for a place. I lost a lot of money living with her and now I'm homeless.
Hi. Sorry that you experienced 5 years of abuse from your daughter and are now homeless. Unfortunately it is a common reaction from narcissistic people that when they do not get their way they try to punish you and make you feel sorry for crossing them. I am however glad that you are free now. This has worked for me in the past when I feel overwhelmed and unsure of the future. It may help for you. I hug myself or just hug a pillow and say to myself. Yes it is scary. And I don’t know yet how I am going to fix things. But I know I will find a way to get through this. And it is going to be okay.
@@NarcissisticAbuseHealingThank you so much.. I just woke and my first thought is how am I going to get through this. I'm going to get my hug first thing this morning. I'm so Grateful for you.🙏
Much Love ❤
Great video...so much really good information. Grateful for it 🙏
Thank you. Glad the video was helpful. Wishing you a wonderful day.
Dealing with my adopted son with this kind of abuse. He has no empathy whatsoever. And he is proud of it. We estranged for 7 years. I got him back to be saved from my narc husband. But it turns out that he is the same. Narc and full of hate. We are now together for 4 years in a foreign country and all he does is give me troubles. I have decided to bring him back to our country. This is what he keeps saying anyway. I am done with narcissistic relationship. If he he wants to change and go through therapy, I will help but if not, I am letting go.
BTW, he is now 17 years old and won't study. He thinks he is an adult. And can disrespect me because i am not his mother. Not on my clock Enough.
What you doing now
@@ishitabhardwaj1797 i am doing ho'oponopono and it's getting better.
This is an excellent teaching video. I truly believe so if this is genetic and if a parent is a narsacist and neglectful to a child.
Good video
Thank you.
Omg. 😳🚩😔🎯💯 Thank you.
I'm pretty sure my 32 year-old daughters the malignant narcissist and she's a drug addict. And like you said I always wonder what I did wrong I think I spoiled her gave her too much hraccess custody of my grandson that I raised for the first seven years of his life she was playing for year-and-a-half until about six months ago I petition the courts to get her video visits now she's totally turned on me won't even let me tell my grandson I love him or happy birthday today because her ex I also think it is a narcissist cuz he's a controlling mean neither of these two people have empathy for anybody I don't even think he wanted my grandson I think he just wanted to win when he took me to court. But he's a Hermit reclusive quiet and controlling and tricky and sneaky my daughter is attention seeker was a stripper worked in Bottle clubs adult entertainment and she is mean and hateful unless you want something I haven't been allowed to see my grandson 2 years and it's really killing me. I tried to keep her around and hopes that I will be allowed to see him. I was promised I would be included when I went and got the packet filed papers paid to subpoena the Father the day she got visits the day of Court once again I was abused and it wasn't about me and I need to know my place and just because I raised him and had custody for 7 years too bad for me. But I ramble Love Today is the 12th birthday I'm missing his whole life but I just don't know how to handle this
I'm going through this with my oldest son. He won't budge in his behavior. Uses the grandchild to get to me. I just dont speak to him anymore. It's just too much negativity. He began to make me sick and sad because he knows I love him so much. All this began when he started dating and then married a chic almost my age. She behaves like a narcissistic witch. Like literally practicing witch craft. Smh
Hi, thank you for commenting. Sorry that you are experiencing the abuse you are from your son. It can be very difficult when it is a family member who you love. Especially when you know they were not like this and are manipulated by someone else.
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The genome has been sequenced for around a decade now. There are 400 or 500 genetic conditions that can be screened for using this information and narcissism would be one of them if it was “genetic“. It’s understandable why someone with a narcissistic child would not want to acknowledge behavioral heritability and next bring up the child’s temperament. Newsflash: it’s a parent’s job to accommodate their child’s temperament without projecting or displacing their own triggered reaction onto that temperament.
A narcissistic adult child got that way on their caregiver’s watch. Where the caregiver themselves was the narcissist, failure to recognize their own accountability is anticipated. A narcissistic parent will project the narcissist label onto a kid standing up for himself, enforcing a boundary, or objecting to disrespect, so (like narcissists’ assessments of others and anyone’s self-reported self-assessment) perhaps these kids are narcissists but the overwhelming likelihood is a parent watching this kind of video is (also) a narcissist whose assessment of their kids has no credibility.
Hi. Nurture plays a large role in the making of a narcissist, thus yes a narcissistic child often has a narcissistic parent. However. Those parents would rarely bother to watch a video like this. It often happens that one parent is a narcissist and the other parent normal or co-dependent. Those are more the parents who watch videos like these to understand why their child is who they are despite the love they gave their child. Yes you can say they allowed the narcissist to abuse them and the child. But most of a child’s temperament is set by age 2 to 4. And many victims of narcissistic abuse don’t know they are being abused. Especially when it comes to emotional and mental abuse and if they came out of a toxic family where such behaviors were normal to them.
Genetics play a role. But does not define a narcissist. It just makes them more susceptible to becoming narcissists.