Do you remember the Tiger Mom hoopla just over a decade ago? A Yale Law professor, Amy Chua, published a book titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, contrasting Western parenting styles and Chinese parenting style, and the public response all but broke the internet.

There is a story we tell in our western culture. It’s a story about a story. We tell it in our books for middle grade kids and in our movies and sit-coms. We tell the story that most normal kids go through a stage during which they fantasize (tell a story) about their parents not being their parents.