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316. Parenting and the Narcissists of Compassion | Stephanie Davies-Arai

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How to Build Self-Esteem in Children

If we cannot have or develop a positive relationship with the world and our environment, then we're not likely to have confidence in ourselves. I think you're right about that there are innate personality characteristics or temperaments and they can be tempered so that the child is… You get the positive side of that more than the negative side. What it did was inflate narcissism. So then you got kids that were just as miserable on the negative emotion front, just as confused and anxious, but they're also narcissistic. That's a tough combination too because you get that hypersensitivity along with grandiosity. And so all this idiot insistence on self-esteem through continual affirmation, that would also be part

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