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For kind ones, very very possible. Being too solicitous of your kids, which is dirt common these days, is one of the main things that can make them narcissistic.

For responsible ones to raise a little narcissistic jerk? Fairly tough, but then again, as noted above, people have extremely loose definitions of what being responsible means these days.

No parent is assured everything will turn out perfectly with every kid, but there are flaws, and then there are flaws. I'd feel a lot worse if my kid grew up to be an unbearable egotist than, say, lower middle class. You can have a lot of shortcomings and missteps in your life without ever crossing certain behavioral lines or letting go of certain moral standards. Raising a kid who didn't give a damn about anybody but himself would be a huge failure to me; to other parents, not so much at all. I'd be willing to bet the parent with the latter type of attitude would be far more likely to raise an oblivious egotist. Their value system inherently is more supportive of such things.

But this is probably the wrong thread for all this. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]