Are we a Nation of Narcissists?
Contact Us Now: 0400 595 679

Archive for the Narcissism Category

Is school refusal a result of the way they’re parented?

Parenting styles can significantly influence a child’s likelihood of experiencing school refusal. Different parenting styles can either contribute to a child’s sense of security, well-being, and motivation to attend school, or they can inadvertently exacerbate anxieties and increase the risk of school refusal. Here are some connections

Read more

School Refusal: How to get the kids back to class

School refusal, also known as school avoidance, is a phenomenon where students actively avoid attending school due to intense anxiety or other emotional distress and it’s a growing concern in educational settings around the world. The impact of school refusal on students, their families, and the educational

Read more

Seven ways to make sure you don’t raise a narcissist

Seven ways to make sure you don’t raise a narcissist

In a largely unempathetic culture, where violence and narcissism are normalised, what we need to be doing is encouraging kindness and compassion, not just within our families and circles, but in the wider community. No-one wants to raise a mean kid, and sadly many parents don’t recognise

Read more

How to raise a narcissistic child

How to raise a narcissistic child

When a child learns a new skill, they get excited. “Watch me mummy!” They’re adorably self-focused. By about the age of seven, the child starts realistically comparing himself with his peers, and often this can lead to a drop in self-esteem. The child quickly learns that he’s

Read more

How to talk to your kids about porn

How to talk to your kids about porn

Porn is wreaking havoc on body image. Viewers of pornography compare their bodies and genitalia against those in the films and consider their bodies unattractive. In fact, medical experts are blaming porn on the soaring rise of surgeries such as labiaplasty, vulvaplasty and vaginaplasty, as women, depressed

Read more

How to recognise domestic violence

How to recognise domestic violence

People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) display patterns of maladaptive behaviour that can have extremely negative and damaging effects on spouses, children, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues and peers. Abuse that is caused by a person with this disorder is termed Narcissistic Victim Abuse. Quite often the NPD

Read more

How porn is teaching your child how to have sex

How porn is teaching your child how to have sex

Porn sells sex as a fantasy and removes all trace of the beauty of human love, intimacy and affection and it is the main tool teens are using to educate themselves about sex. Boys as young as 11 are accessing porn and from this early age, are

Read more

Why date rapists think No means Yes

Why date rapists think No means Yes

I would like to reiterate that this post is not about man-hating. I speak of the male perpetrator and female victim merely because statistically there are more females raped by males, than the other way around. Further, I am not claiming all narcissists are rapists, nor that

Read more

Scary DV statistics in Australia: Are we worried?

Scary DV statistics in Australia: Are we worried?

Domestic violence and abuse happens to all genders and this needs to be remembered. I’ve met men and women in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships who have all suffered at the hand of an abuser. However, in the majority of abuse, it is male to female and

Read more

How to raise happy, balanced children

How to raise happy, balanced children

One major influence on creating well rounded children is how they’re raised Now, I’m not claiming to be a parenting expert, because I’m not even close. I have one daughter and I made plenty of mistakes. For me, parenting success throughout my mothering went from ‘thank heavens

Read more

4 ways to teach kindness in a violent world

4 ways to teach kindness in a violent world

I make some pretty big claims in my book about how violence and violent behaviour is being normalised in western culture – so much so that we’re becoming desensitised to the violence and often, don’t even recognise behaviours as being violent. I often tell the story of

Read more

11 practical steps to keep your kids safe online

11 practical steps to keep your kids safe online

The internet can be a helpful tool to help with study and homework, and it’s a wonderful social tool to keep family and friends in touch. Mobile phones are a means of keeping parents and children in contact in the case of emergencies, however, despite the positive

Read more

Is social media hijacking your teen’s identity?

Think about social media and how easy it is to manipulate images (for example, there’s an app which fixes skins blemishes, brightens eyes and thins down the face).  Add to this a few ‘likes’ from encouraging friends and a teen’s reality is now an illusion.  Social theorist,

Read more

Domestic abuse and the ‘dance of the narcissist’

Domestic abuse and the ‘dance of the narcissist’

Often the victim of domestic abuse by a narcissist initially delight in the glow of the narcissist’s charm but soon become anxious and drained because of tantrums, attacks and accusations of imaginary slights.  The victim begins to doubt herself and worry about what their tormentor will think

Read more

Our kids need to know about bullying, porn and suicide

Being a parent is arguably one of the most difficult jobs you’ll ever do, but it can also be the most rewarding.   The first thing I’d like you to do is think about the social pressures you had as a teen.  Yes, there was bullying, but it

Read more