Last week I mentioned a helpful book for parents on how to “unspoil” their children (HERE). Along those same lines I found some helpful parenting advice in Keith Campbell and Jean Twenge’s The Narcissism Epidemic. This is not a Christian resource for parenting, but it should be read alongside Christian parenting books and the biblical …
It’s All About Me (Because I’m Special!)
This is a good book that describes the selfishness, vanity, pride, arrogance, depression, cynicism, apathy, and attitude of many young Americans today: Generation Me by Jean Twenge. The subtitle of the book explains it a bit more: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before. If this topic …
The Juvenalization of Western Culture (the Cult of Youth)
In their excellent book The Narcissism Epidemic, Jean Twenge and Keith Campbell (among many other things) discuss the symptoms of narcissism in America today. One of them is vanity, which they discuss in chapter 9. As one of part of this chapter suggests, "in pursuit of hotness" many people today do many things that were unheard of …
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