Ned Johnson

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Ned.

Ned Johnson and Bill Stixrud, who I know well, and they're, yes, endorsed it fully.

Yes, he's been both, Jessica and Ned have both been on the podcast and talked to me about their work.

And it's so interesting to me what a foreign concept it is for parents to feel like they can let go and allow the attention and the experience of natural consequence.

And I think adolescents, especially if you haven't already started, adolescence is really asking for parents to be willing to say like, this is training ground for life.

Welcome to the Self-Driven Child Podcast.

I'm your host, Ned Johnson, and co-author with Dr. William Stichrud of the books, The Self-Driven Child, The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives, and What Do You Say? How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home.

Maybe it wasn't all about the cell phones after all.

Jonathan Haidt's book, The Anxious Generation, lays the blame for the dramatic decline of child and teen mental health squarely on cell phones and social media use.

Today I speak with eminent psychologist, researcher, and author Dr. Peter Gray, who makes the case in his new book that childhood mental health has been on the decline since well before the advent of widespread smartphone and social media use, and that the well-documented upswing in mental health disorders in 2010 is simply not adequately explained by correlations with teen tech use.

We will speak about what he has learned about the factors that contribute to juvenile anxiety and depression, and how we all, working together, can restore childhood.

I'm Ned Johnson, and this is the Self-Driven Child Podcast.

Well, Peter, thanks so much for joining me.

Mm-hmm.

Our next book club pick is going to be The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud, PhD and Ned Johnson.

Okay.

But before we get any deeper into the yes brain today, we start off each of our episodes every week with a weekly recap.