“Overvaluing parents overestimate, over-claim and overpraise their child’s qualities,” says Brummelman. “For example, they overestimate their child’s IQ, claim their child has knowledge of many different topics – including topics that don’t even exist – and lavish their child with praise even if the child doesn’t perform well.” Such parents often try to make their child stand out from the get-go by giving him or her a unique or uncommon first name, he adds.