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 every household needs to send one son.
But one and only son cannot go because he's broken his leg.
And so we know that, you know, from all of us' own experiences, I mean, I have all sorts of things in my background that were really apart, and I'd really rather not relive them.
But I also would not want to have not lived them because, you know, the scars that I have from my difficult childhood 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 adults, you know, we have all sorts of scars from life.
And some of them, they make us sad to reflect upon, but they also make us who we are.
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 tense prep guy.
We've seen so many kids
who struggle and struggle, and they're a mess when they're 10 or 12 or even 22 or 28, 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 if I could tell you with complete confidence, Asher is going to be a great human being.
He's going to be a great adult, and he's going to have a life that's successful for 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 appearances we so easily do is say this one data point, and we then draw two bad episodes, and we make a straight line that goes right into this.
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 when kids 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 going to be.
You have to get through this, and I'm going to help you.
And if you have that confidence that somehow things are going to come together, it makes it much easier to have kids to keep working hard on making it happen.
Well, I have a daughter who's now a freshman in high school, and she's a complicated character.
She ended up being, almost the entirety of her middle school, not having friends.
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