What Are the Signs of a Narcissistic Child?

Narcissistic mothers and daughters often become seriously enmeshed with each other, which daughters tend to experience as a feeling of suffocation and entrapment. Any move by the daughter to escape is taken as a severe rejection on the part of the mother.

Narcissistic mothers may tend to their daughter’s physical needs, but leave her emotionally bereft. The daughter doesn’t realize what’s missing, but longs for warmth and understanding from her mother that she may experience with friends or relatives or witness in other mother-daughter relationships.

When a child is raised by a narcissistic parent, they may become orbital to the parent—focused on meeting the parents’ needs and losing their own sense of identity in the process. However, some children of narcissistic parents become narcissists themselves—and it’s easy to understand why.

For most mothers, a child’s success, fortune, or good looks are a source of pride and joy. But in narcissistic mothers, it arouses envy and resentment because they see their children, particularly their daughters, as competition.

• Believing they are better than other kids.
• Difficulty making friends/maintaining friendships.
• See getting attention as their right/need to be center of attention.
• Withdrawal from others who do not give attention or admiration.

So Does the narcissist get worse with age? Generally, narcissists don’t get more flexible, empathic or agreeable with age. These are personality traits of NPD and they are highly unlikely to change.

Narcissists view partners as trophies under their power and may expect partners to show deference and adoring behavior throughout the relationship. Manipulation of a partner is emotional abuse, and narcissists resort to some pretty low behaviors if they feel that they are losing their hold on a partner.

One of the best ways to deal with a narcissistic teenage daughter is to make her responsible for her behavior. Don’t rescue her every time she makes a mistake, and don’t step in to save her from failure all the time. Instead, let her experience logical or natural consequences for her behavior.

The adopted daughter of veteran actress Nora Aunor and Christopher de Leon met up with her biological mom after nearly three decades! After 26 years apart, Lotlot de Leon was finally able to spend time with her biological mother, Eva Rodriguez.

The heartwarming reunion happened in Venice Beach, California, where Eva is now based. Lotlot told PEP that they met the day before they were going to head back to the Philippines. They last saw each other in 1991 when Lotlot was only 20 years old.

For obvious reasons, having a narcissistic mother can have a more damaging effect on daughters than on sons. Girls learn about what it is to be female from their mothers. They learn from their mothers what society expects of a woman.