Ned Johnson
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601 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Sep 2024
Ned Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For us, the most important outcome of childhood and adolescence is having the brain you're going to have for the rest of your life.
Then, golly, you still want a brain that's motivated to set and pursue goals that are meaningful to that person themselves.
Otherwise, we as employers or teachers or parents or whatever will spend our lifetime trying to apply carrots and sticks to get kids to do what's in their own best interest rather than wanting them to do what's in their own best interest.
And I'm a test prep geek.
I've spent 25 years helping kids combat an alphabet of standardized tests like the SCT and ACT and figured out pretty early on that while tests are standardized, kids aren't.
And so I had the opportunity to work one-on-one with kids to really try to figure out in a situation what it revealed about the student as much as it revealed about the test.
And then
I tried to work on ways to bend and weave and kind of meet kids where they are and try to teach them in ways that fit their learning needs rather than my default approach.
Well, having kids have a sense of control isn't putting the toddler in charge of the household.
In some ways, giving kids responsibilities that exceed their capacity to handle them isn't a gift.
It's a curse because it will overwhelm them by the stress of that.
But exactly to your point, Debbie, when kids are toddlers, they can choose what book they read or what clothes they wear, even if they don't meet contemporary fashion standards.
As they get older, what language do they want to study?
Do they want to study an instrument?
If they do want to study an instrument, which one do they want to play?
Choices in high school, choices about friends, choices about how they spend their time after school.
Even within that context, it isn't that the parents have no say whatsoever because that's not at all what we're advocating for.
We really want parents to have an authoritative approach rather than a lazy fare or an authoritarian approach.
But as much as we can, if kids have more control, some say over their lives, they're much more willing to go along with things when maybe they just kind of have to go along with them.
But also some of that control is even if I as a parent am the authority and I'm sort of saying this is the broad framework and I say this is what it's going to be.
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