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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And and exactly as Bill said, we we do this because it makes us feel better, because it's so hard to sit
There and do nothing.
My son is a first-year student in college, and he is he is writing papers is his bête noire, right?
It's hard for him to motivate to do these because he's ADHD.
And watching him not write papers through high school was just painful.
I mean, it's just it was so hard.
And I just had to keep telling myself, as Bill would say, whose problem is it?
And so I would often
offer help, but at some point I just have to say, you know what, I'm I'm gonna go for another walk.
I'm gonna go because because I just can't, you know.
Because because I just can't, you know.
And and now he's in college and he, you know, he still has some papers that overdo.
And I said I my my hope is you get those done by next Saturday when we pick you up from college.
But it's not my problem.
And it's it's it takes every fiber in my being not to, you know, schedule something with a writing center or jump in or Nagum or
Or whatever, but you know, he has the brain that he ha that he has, and he knows that we will help him in every possible way.
That's been made abundantly clear.
But if we jump in and and make this happen, it won't be helpful for our relationship or for him long term, because we all know if we reflect on our lives, there are times that we struggled.
And it's those times of struggle that helped us figure out who we are, what systems are.
work works better, our own sense of resilience, our confidence and our ability to handle hard things, where if we jumped in and solved it over and over and over and he got the paper handed on time, well it'd be lovely, but we would be depriving him of that very struggle that he needs to figure out how to navigate h his life for himself.
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