Pygmalion Effect: when the expectations of fathers and mothers are not those of their children. In 1965, Robert Roshental, a psychologist and Harvard professor who gave it its name, and the American educator Leonore Jacobson investigated how teachers' expectations of their students' performance could influence their actual performance.
In this type of parental gestures there is the underlying conception, which is not always conscious, that children are an extension of their own ego. “In such a way that their achievements and failures are perceived a bit as their own,” says María Sánchez Corrales, general health psychologist at Crezando Psicología.