It’s about time we shine a big old spot light on all the brilliant pieces of work that happen every single day for children and families. Alice — artist, athlete, banjo player, sailor, founder of the Staten Island Garden Club, the first woman to own a car in the borough — has come as close to absolute freedom as a woman of her era could come, transcending the narrow roadways of her time with her wheels, her lens, and her love. Alice Austen and her bicycle, circa 1897. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Alice Robb was one of Balanchine's girls: as a student at the School of American Ballet, it didn't matter that Balanchine had been dead twenty years; his ghost still roamed the halls, and girls clustered, breathless, around dancers who once upon a time had studied with Balanchine, who could impart his wisdom.

This question is reliant on the parent reading the potential cues and signals associated with the child’s fear and and entering the child’s mind to fully comprehend what might be causing it. We have been using a mentalization based video intervention, alongside some other tools and techniques, to do some much needed ‘repair’ in relation to her relationship with her older child. CAMHS had identified severe 'attachment issues'. As well as informing assessments, asking questions like these, which prompt a parent to consider their child’s internal states, can help develop their capacity to mentalize with their child. You can also help parents to develop mentalization by modelling it yourself towards them. If you’re familiar with the ballet world, you’ll hear some familiar stories and the history of some very famous names, but there’s lots here that was new to me even as a ballet enthusiast. And if you’re new to the topic, this is an approachable and informative primer. Please repost and share this far and wide, I would love to have as many people take part in this as possible! Tell your colleagues, tell your family, tell the lovely, loud, quirky, cat loving, business support lady you love (surely every team has one of these?!).

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This may be something that this child has never really experienced before but it is central to them feeling safe and cared for with the family they now find themselves in. Author Alice Robb attended the prestigious School of American Ballet for several years until she was dismissed at age 14. Alice loved ballet as a girl, “the hyperfeminine trappings of it all, the unapologetic girlishness.” Ballet became a huge part of her life, as she spent hours in classes and performing. When she realized, as a young teen, that she wasn’t being cast for roles she wanted, and was then dismissed from the school, she went through a loss of identity and a period of grieving for what had been a huge part of her life. In this book, she tells a bit about her experience. But most of the book focuses on experiences of her ballet friends, as well as experiences of famous ballerinas as learned through their books. As you might guess from that last quote, the book does dive into the woke, feminist mindset so prevalent among those Robb’s age (she’s in her early 30s). We hear a lot about #metoo and how NYCB founder Balanchine and NYCB choreographer Peter Martins were abusive to dancers. Balanchine claimed to choose dancers “as you would choose horses.” The book’s title comes from a Balanchine quote to a dancer: “Don’t think, dear. Just do.” As the years go on, Robb feels “guilty about harboring affection for a system that clearly harmed women.” She is thrilled to attend a ballet and see a “gender nonconforming” dancer “(who uses they/them pronouns)” in a female role. She is ecstatic when, during covid, she sees dancers performing in masks. I had a brilliant session this week with a mum whose children have been on the brink of removal by the local authority and they had exhausted their options of intervention.

My PhD research focused on exploring the influencing factors on the outcome of parent-child intervention and followed parents placed in either a residential or foster-care placement with their babies for 12 weeks. I identified distinct thematic differences between those who had a positive outcome and returned to the community with their babies and those that did not, and these themes became factors termed ‘change facilitators’ or ‘change inhibitors’. My study concluded that a focus on identifying ‘change facilitators’ and ‘change inhibitors’, at the family assessment stage could help to inform the types of interventions required. This approach may therefore provide families with an increased likelihood of making the desired improvements and remaining together. Dr Loving is an honorary lecturer for the Centre for Child Protection at Kent University and has published work in the Child and Family Social Work and Children England journals. Her most recent publication is a chapter titled ‘Working with cases of neglect and emotional abuse’, featured in Child Protection and the Care Continuum. Shehas previously worked with Community Care, providing social workers with effective direct work techniques and producing guidance on understanding attachment relationships and writing about this in court. She was recently commissioned by Community Care to produce a practice guide on ‘Attachment Trauma’ and parenting.This question is an adaptation from George Kaplan and Mary Main’s (1985) ‘Adult attachment interview’ and aims to connect the parent to the child’s lived experience of the care that they provide. So began the other great Gertrude-and-Alice love story — far less fabled than the one of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas a generation later, but also one in which two people, joined together, become themselves.” Alice F. Loving, 77, of Galion and formerly of Marion, passed away Monday, August 23, 2021 at her daughter’s residence surrounded by her family.

This is a peek into the (sometimes somewhat toxic) world of professional and serious ballet. It is also a mini-biography hodgepodge of ballerinas, some famous and some not. My name is Alice, I'm 27 years old and I'm a digital designer currently working from home, which means that I have a lot of free time and flexibility, so it is easy for me to take care of your cats any time in the day. One note about the audiobook: the author does read with some pretty serious vocal fry (she mentions this has been a criticism she has received early on in the book). I really try not to let that bother me but if you find it .. distracting .. you might not want to listen to the audio version. Over her long life, Alice Austen took more than 8,000 photographs, turning her sensitive and daring lens toward the lives of immigrants, child laborers, New York “street types,” and people for whom Victorian culture had neither terms nor tenderness and whom we might call LGBT today. Alice Austen’s friend Maria Ward, who went by Violet, with partner, circa 1890. ( Alice Austen House archive.)This is eminently readable and well-paced nonfiction, never dry or dull, and I loved this frank but loving look into the world of ballet. I have worked within the field of child protection for 11 years, across local authority and residential settings. For the past seven years, I have worked independently for local authorities, completing parenting assessments and offering mentalization based parenting intervention. Most children have items of food, toys or activities that they are particularly fond of, and others that they may dislike. For the parent to be aware of these likes and dislikes can demonstrate not only their attunement to what is in their child’s mind, but also the way in which they view them as an autonomous individual.

Children in foster care must experience a caregiver who has a curiosity for what is going on inside their mind, what are they thinking…how are they feeling? In 1950, while working on his book The Revolt of American Women, Oliver Jensen — a thirty-six-year-old former Life magazine editor and writer — discovered 3,500 of Alice’s glass-plate negatives in the basement of the Staten Island Historical Society and was instantly taken with their uncommon genius. Leafing through phone books, he was staggered to realize that Alice was still alive, then doubly staggered to learn that she was living at a poorhouse. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch! You can just drop me a message. Looking forward to hear from you and your cats! :)

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A generation before Berenice Abbott, another trailblazing lesbian photographer, created her iconic series Changing New York, Alice Austen captured the changing face of the city — this ever-changing emblem of a city — during its most rapid period of transformation as modernity was finding its sea legs and America was becoming America. Postman collecting the day’s mail at 56th Street and Madison Avenue, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Newsboy at Grand Central Depot, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Organ-grinder with wife at 48th Street and Broadway, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Street-cleaner at 34th Street, New York City, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Two working children at City Hall Park, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) If Chloe Angyal's Turning Pointe was a bit too much modern history and not enough memoir for you, but you want something more contemplative than a standard ballet memoir—or if you're interested in hearing more stories that don't read like a litany of successful performances with the occasional worrying injury thrown in— Don't Think, Dear makes for a compelling middle ground of personal narrative and broader view. And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to peruse Robb's bibliography...