“You know, children are pretty narcissistic.”

Part of an occasional series about phrases that this therapist finds himself repeating, often.

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As a clinician in private practice, one of the phrases that I hear myself saying is this: “You know, children are pretty narcissistic.” In all sincerity, that is not intended as slight toward the child in question. Seriously, it…