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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But I also would not want to have not lived them because you know the scars that I have from my difficult childhood and and adolescence, I think are very much what make the best of me and how I deal with other adolescents who are sometimes having a hard time.
And I think if most of us thought about that as as adults, you know, we we have all sorts of scars from life.
And they're and some of them are s they make us sad to reflect upon, but they also make us who we are.
Yeah.
And so if we knew that, I mean, you know, Bill especially is 35 years as a psychologist, and even me 25 years as a test prep guy, we've seen so many kids who struggle and struggle, and they're a mess when they're ten or twelve or even twenty-two or twenty-eight, who eventually come around and live lives that are remarkable and meaningful and successful.
And if we knew that these were simply the ups and downs of kids, and and if I could tell you with with complete confidence, Asher is gonna be a great human being.
He is gonna be a great adult and he's gonna have a life that's successfully equals him.
And everything along the way would just be part of the process.
And you could sit back and say, okay, this is a disaster, but what's the learning that we're going to take out of here?
Rather than what so appearances we so easily do is say this one data point and we then draw, you know, two bad episodes and we make it we make a straight line that goes right into an abyss.
And I would I would submit that for us as adults who have a much longer view on the world than do our children, we should work really hard to take the long view on our kids and help our kids, even when they're struggling, particularly with kids who are going through rough spots with anxiety and depression, to say this is part of your journey right now, but this is not who you're gonna be.
We have to get through this and I'm gonna help you.
And if we can have that confidence that somehow things are gonna come together, it makes it much easier to have kids to keep working hard on making it.
Well, I have a daughter who's now a freshman in in high school and she's a complicated character.
Um, she ended up being
Most almost the entirety of her middle school not having friends.
She's not really socially intuitive and ended up in full on school refusal for the last three months of eighth grade.
Because of anxiety that then became depression.
And it was pretty darn hard.
I mean, particularly, you know, dad when dad's a guy whose entire career has been helping kids get into college.
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