Soon after my book Bringing Up Bébé appeared, in 2012, I discovered an animated video made by a company in Taiwan. In it, a woman who’s supposed to be me drinks red wine and teaches her child to paint the Mona Lisa. Then she has a street fight with a “tiger mom” (presumably Amy Chua) who turns into an actual tiger just before “I” stab her with a French flag.

“Baby Toss,” by Julie Blackmon, whose monograph Homegrown was published
last year by Radius Books © The artist. Courtesy the artist and Radius Books

This video…