The overarching aim of this study was to develop and validate a new scale (i.e., the Praise, Indulgence, and Status Parenting Scale [PISPS]) to measure modern parenting practices and behaviors consistent with instilling ideals of specialness (i.e., the notion that one is special), selfesteem, and status in children. In 2 studies on emerging adults (Study 1: N = 582, M age = 19.46; Study 2: N = 464, M age = 19.58), the PISPS was developed and validated using classical test theory (Study 1) and further refined using item-response theory (Study 2). Results from both studies indicated a 3-factor structure with factors differentially linked with correlates of interest including parenting strategies, self-esteem, narcissism, entitlement, and internalizing symptoms. Study 3 further validated the PISPS in a sample of parents (N = 638, M age = 35.79) reporting on their parenting and their child's emotion regulation and symptoms of psychopathology. Overall, findings support the PISPS, its psychometric properties, and its unique contribution to child symptoms.The desire to facilitate children's healthy development and well-being is arguably one of the more central goals of society. For decades, the role of parenting in child development has received considerable attention, yielding important theoretical and empirical models of parenting and parent-child relationships (e.g., Baumrind, 1989;Gottman, Katz, & Hooven, 1996). Research in the areas of child development and well-being has highlighted a host of beneficial parenting practices that foster healthy development, an approach Holden, Ashraf, Brannan, and Baker (2016) described as positive parenting. Coinciding with this parenting lens has been a focus on children's self-esteem-or the "the level of global regard that one has to the self as a person" (Harter, 1993, p. 88)-as low self-esteem has been associated with poor outcomes such as depression, poor health, aggression, and antisocial behavior, even when controlling for potential covariates such as gender, socioeconomic status, and potential reporter bias (e.g.,