When her sixth-grade daughter was despatched house from faculty with a “flour-sack child” to take care of for per week, Hope Edelman was initially skeptical (“Weren’t sixth graders a little bit younger for this sort of factor?” she puzzled). However quickly she noticed the task as a chance to equip her daughter with the parenting expertise her personal mom by no means received the possibility to show her. She may need taken the train a little bit too far.
On this week’s Fashionable Love podcast, the actor Gillian Anderson reads Ms. Edelman’s transferring and continuously humorous essay “Maternal Wisdom (5 Pounds’ Worth).”
Ms. Edelman is the writer of six nonfiction books, together with “Motherless Daughters, Motherless Mothers” and “The Possibility of Everything.” She teaches writing at Antioch College Los Angeles and lives in Topanga Canyon, Calif., together with her husband and two daughters.
Ms. Anderson is thought for her function as F.B.I. Particular Agent Dana Scully in “The X-Files.” She’s going to seem as intercourse therapist Jean Thompson within the Netflix collection “Sex Education,” which premieres Jan. 11. Keep tuned after the studying to listen to from her, Ms. Edelman and the Fashionable Love editor Daniel Jones.
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