{"id":59256,"date":"2014-10-23T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59256"},"modified":"2014-10-23T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:55:04","slug":"when-do-children-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59256","title":{"rendered":"When Do Children Rebel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/justnotsaid.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/parental-and-peer-group-influence.html\">Blog<\/a>: My theory: a child will adopt a parents&#8217; tastes and values and outlook in inverse correlation with the narcissism of that parent. If a parent is a blowhard &#8212; of high or low IQ &#8212; who can never admit his mistakes, his child is likely to adopt an opposite outlook. And vice versa.<br \/>\nIf a parent is too rigid in his or her thinking, the child will see that and instinctively go in an opposite direction. 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