Are We Ready for a New Generation of Narcissists?
Does the ‘Cult of the Child’ do our society more harm than good?
A few weeks ago, the first episode of Love Island UK (season eight) brought a pandora’s box of rampant individualism.
Watching thirty oiled-up narcissist singletons strutting across our screens this summer, we’ll get a chance to reflect on our age of entitlement.
And now it seems we, as parents, are preparing the youngest generation to follow suit, according to Serge Dupont, a psychology lecturer at UCL University (Louvain, Belgium).
The Cult of the Child
In his comprehensive study, The Cult of the Child: A Critical Examination of Its Consequences on Parents, Teachers, and Children, Dupont argues that our child-centered parenting approach can make children feel the world revolves around them, leading to increased loneliness and decreased happiness.
While some studies attribute excessive use of smartphones and social media to poor mental health, Dupont believes mental health issues among generation Z can also be linked to the Cult of the Child.
So what does that mean?
The above may sound complex, but what Dupont means is that we, as a (western)…
