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Barbara Johnson Positive Criticism

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Criticism has a positive influence on a person because it allows a person to go beyond what is expected.
Negative criticism can be turned into a positive action. Barbara Johnson, a single mother who lived in Austin, TX , suffered from mental illness. Her husband left her with 5 kids to raise. She had a mental breakdown, due to her husband being mentally abusive, and because of this, she had to go to a mental hospital. Johnson's sisters criticize her because she was distraught and they believed that her kids would be on welfare, homeless or, in the future, jobless. Johnson's sisters were convinced that she would be a bad mother, but this was not the case. She took their negative criticism and did something her sisters never thought she was

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