Week 16-Personal Opinion Post

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-adcova4724682may01,0,6387957.story?coll=ny-health-print

Is your kid indigo?Proponents of the theory say creative, hard-to-manage kids are more highly evolved than the rest of us. Critics doubt it.

I'll give you the information "in a nutshell":


"According to parents who believe, however, up to 90 percent of children younger than 10 may be indigo, sharing the characteristics of not only being more spiritual and intuitive than their forebears, but also more creative and free-thinking. According to Carroll and Tober, indigos have a strong sense of self and are often impulsive, refusing to play by society's rules - a situation that often results in being mislabeled as having ADD or ADHD, attention deficit hyperactive disorder.The common link among all indigo children, advocates say - part and parcel of the New Age belief that society is evolving toward a better, brighter future - is that they've come to push humanity toward greater authenticity and world peace by challenging adults' rules and the usual societal conventions. "

All you really need to know is that according to this article, these are the traits that "indigo children" are believed to exhibit.

1. They come into the world with a feeling of royalty (and often act like it).
2. They have a feeling of "deserving to be here," and are surprised when others don't share that
.3. Self-worth is not a big issue. They often tell parents "who they are."
4. They have difficulty with absolute authority.
5. They will simply not do certain things; for example, waiting in line is difficult for them.
6. They get frustrated with systems that are ritual-oriented and don't require creative thought.
7. They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like "system busters."
8. They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around them, they turn inward, feeling like no other human understands them. School is often extremely difficult for them socially.
9. They will not respond to "guilt" discipline ("Wait till your father gets home.").
10. They are not shy in letting you know what they need.


We've all met these children. We just didn't know they were called "Indigo Children". Most of us just knew them as BRATS.

These are the same smarmy, "wise" kids we've all either had in a class with us or had to sit next to at some public place. They usually are "bouncing off the walls" while their parents sit there with an adoring expression watching their child go crazy as everyone else in the room wonders what kind of a nutcase lets their child act like this. They've been everywhere, done everything, and know everything under the sun. They think they really are the center of the universe and seem to be totally astonished and genuinely hurt to discover that no one other than their parents and themself think that they are anything particularly special.
The parents of these children all seem to have one thing in common, they either can't, or won't, control their children. By asserting their child is "special" and that the usual rules of behaviour don't apply to them, they can justify their abdication of parental authority. There may indeed be some sort of "social evolution" happening with them, but it is "evolving " downwards, not upwards.