The Florida Project, a.k.a. Someone Call Child Protection Service: The Movie, is a brusquely effecting, blisteringly real portrait of quiet, destitute tragedy, bursting with one of the
most authentic child performances I've ever seen.
Using Child Assessment Data to Achieve Positive Outcomes is a video by the Colorado Department of Education that shows administrators and teachers illustrating how they
use authentic child assessment data to: 1) inform funders, 2) inform classroom level instruction, 3) support teachers, and 4) meet the needs of individual children and their families.
The first is a conviction that the natural order need not be written off as in bondage to evil — the apocalyptic view — but contains both clues to the nature of God (Mt 5:45) and conditions within which we can learn to be
authentic children of our Father in heaven.
Recovering
the authentic child requires a period of protective separation from the pathogenic, manipulative, psychologically controlling, and pathological parenting of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.
However, we also approach the child with an understanding that the symptomatic expressions are not emanating from
the authentic child, but from the pathogen that has infected the child.
There is
no authentic child present.