One of a gaslighters most potent weapons is her words and a parent often uses these eight classic phrases in an attempt to gaslight her child so that she feels better about herself. You’re just sensitive. Because the narcissistic parent has a lot of trouble empathizing with her child, its a lot easier to label her kid sensitive. And call it a day than to have to address the fact that her little one may be reacting for a logical reason that perfect reason being that she feels an emotion and has a right to it.

Key Takeaways:

• We often hear about boyfriends or girlfriends gaslighting their significant others by saying things and denying their feelings in a way that actually begins making them question their own sanity.
• But the young men and women who gaslight often become the same dads and moms who use this effective and disastrous form of psychological torture to maintain the control and power they so desperately associate with their worth.
• At the root of it all, they’ll do almost anything to be right, maintain their influence over the people in their home and to ensure they are the center of their kids’ universes.

“Parents who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder, many of whom remain clueless that they even have a sense of entitlement and feed off of attention and drama as ways to feel important, are often the same folks who put their kids through gaslighting hell.”

http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1127680/things-people-say-when-gaslighting