A little background info. The only child is my girlfriend's, and he is 6 years old. Real dad isn't around, so I'm more or less the primary male adult figure in his life...not sure if that qualifies me as a parent but still wanna help if I can.Anywho, the little guy is a really good kid for the most part. He does well in school and has friends and doesn't throw temper tantrums or anything like that.However, he has a tendency of not accepting reality. For instance, if we are playing a board game or video game, and he obviously loses the game, he still says "I beat you". He also likes to say things like "I'm the fastest/strongest in the world." Lastly, I was showing him some basics about the guitar, and five minutes later he says "I just played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." I ask him to play for me and he just laughs and says "not right now."Hopefully that paints the picture well enough. I tried looking this up in Google and found the term for this is "Ego-centrism" but haven't found much info beyond that...hence this post. I've talked about it with Mommy, and she says she realized the same thing and has been trying to teach him what humility means but he doesn't quite understand it.I'm not sure if this is common in only children and he'll grow out of it or if it's something to try to work on and fix. My biggest concern is that in 15-20 years when he is going to college and/or working or in a relationship is that when someone tells him he did something wrong, he doesn't accept it and fails to learn from his mistakes...maybe I'm looking too far ahead though :P via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2B7BQuA
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