Robin & Samantha Henig: The rules of writing with your daughter
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2013
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, Samantha, decided to write a book together about life as a twentysomthing. There was just one problem -- how to handle the bits you don't want to talk about with your mother?
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt a huge, but I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring your true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:32.1 | This week's story is from Robin Morance Henig and Samantha Henig. |
| 0:36.7 | The story was recorded in February 2013 at Dram in New York City. |
| 0:41.3 | The theme of the event was Love and Science. |
| 0:49.3 | My daughter Samantha and I have always been close. |
| 0:55.0 | When Sam was in the fifth grade, we started a mother-daughter book club that lasted all the way through the girls' high school graduation. |
| 1:03.0 | And when the girls were about 12 or 13, we actually read a book called That Night by Alice McDermott about a pregnant teenager, and we used |
| 1:13.6 | that opportunity to talk about sexuality. I remember during that book club discussion, Sam |
| 1:20.6 | said that she imagined that the first, the scariest thing about having sex for the first time |
| 1:25.6 | would be that she would have to tell her mother |
| 1:27.8 | about it. And I did actually tell my mother the first time that I tried to have sex and not to make it |
| 1:34.7 | a vagina evening, but I also told her that we didn't succeed because we could not locate my vagina. |
| 1:47.2 | So in her early 20s, Sam had a couple of live-in boyfriends, |
| 1:52.7 | and when she was living with somebody, |
| 1:55.4 | she and I talked a lot about, not quite to that specific detail, |
| 2:00.2 | but we talked a lot about her relationships |
| 2:01.8 | and about love and sex and how things were going. |
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