F. de Marzipan
05-04-2004, 04:10 PM
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I was wandering around Craigslist this morning, and found an ad for a babysitter for an "Indigo child."
This, of course, made me ask "What the heck is an Indigo child?"
What is an Indigo Child?
As a summary, here are the ten attributes that best describe this new kind of child, the Indigo Child (named by those who predicted it).
They come into the world with a feeling of royalty (and often act like it)
They have a feeling of "deserving to be here," and are surprised when others don't share that.
Self-worth is not a big issue. They often tell the parents "who they are."
They have difficulty with absolute authority (authority without explanation or choice).
They simply will not do certain things; for example, waiting in line is difficult for them.
They get frustrated with systems that are ritually oriented and don't require creative thought.
They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like "system busters" (nonconforming to any system).
They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around them, they often turn inward, feeling like no other human understands them. School is often extremely difficult for them socially.
They will not respond to "guilt" discipline ("Wait till your father gets home and finds out what you did").
They are not shy in letting you know what they need. --The Indigo Children Website (http://www.indigochild.com)
In addition to the above "attributes," Indigo children are supposedly brilliant (as in uber-genius), and often extremely psychic. Err... okaaayyyyyy....
I can't help but see this as a great big rip off. (Ok, I'm being nice. It's actually a festering load of flyblown horsecrap.) First of all, almost everything on that list describes a poorly disciplined, badly trained child, one that has become so numb to repeated empty threats of punishment that he turns into a raging little bully with no respect for his parents or fear of the consequences of his increasingly selfish and bratty behavior.
Secondly, pretty much every parent privately thinks his/her child is different, better, unusually gifted, or "special" in one way or another. They all seem to think that their child has unique needs or attributes that no other child has. This Indigo Kid hoohaw plays right into that whole "my child is specialer than your child" mentality.
Lee Carrol, the Indigo Kid guru, is nothing more than a conman. He tells parents that their smart but annoyingly hyperactive, poorly disciplined, and spoiled-into-bratdom child is "special" and different, and they all spend wads of dough on his books and seminars to prove it (thereby relieving them of any real responsibility for raising a well-behaved child, because "Gosh, we just can't do anything with him, he's an Indigo Child, you know.").
People are such suckers. :rolleyes:
I began to wonder what a message board for these losers might have to say, so I Googled it and ended up on this page: Crystalline Children ~Channelled from the Ascended Masters (http://www.greatdreams.com/indigo.htm). The link to their message board doesn’t work, but this webpage has some interesting things to say… stuff like:
The Indigo Children are not to be considered "superior or elite" in comparison to other humans, but rather viewed as living demonstrations of the dormant abilities that are NOW beginning to rapidly unfold among ALL HUMAN POPULATIONS. and
It is that these children are able to communicate telepathically, and are speaking to others in other dimensions as a normal event in the course of their play. and
But it was the 1999 book The Indigo Children, by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, that popularized the idea of the next generation. Carroll was an economics major who ran a technical audio business for 30 years until a visit to a psychic prompted a New Age midlife crisis. He found religion and started traveling around the world giving "self-help" seminars. Accompanying him was Tober, a practitioner of metaphysics and hands-on healing as well as a jazz singer who had toured with Benny Goodman and Fred Astaire. The genesis of the book came when they began noticing similar accounts of strange behavior in children from teachers, counselors and psychologists who attended their seminars. As they began to look into these occurrences, they found kids were indeed being born with an "unusual set of psychological attributes" and displaying "a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before."
Note that the guru of this movement reportedly attended college to study the economy (but did he graduate? who knows?) and worked as a sound engineer his whole life. His wife is an over-the-hill hoofer/singer who believes Indigo children come to us from outer space and glow blue (hence, the name). From all indications, neither one has any documented expertise on the subject of dealing with “special” children, or any other thing, apparently. *
Finally, this amazing information:
The peculiarities of Jake and Jan (their families asked that their real names not be used) were apparent from an early age. As a toddler, Jan sometimes spoke using her own language. Instead of "cookie," she would say "cookah" and refused to call a sandwich anything but a "phonic." Odder still, she didn't begin speaking until she was three years old. For Jake's part, he had trouble grasping the concept that he was not in charge. "He has to be told," Jake's mother says. "He doesn't think he needs permission." Spence noticed a similar idiosyncrasy in her granddaughter. "You have to coax her to do her homework," she says.
I don’t know about you, but I’m shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you. Imagine, a toddler who makes up her own words! (As a child, I called milk “noot.” I guess that makes me the first of the Indigo kids!) Imagine, a 3-year-old thinking he's in charge of everyone and everything. Why, the idea on the face of it, is absurd. NO child would think this way, unless he was… “special.” Imagine, a grade schooler who has to be COAXED into doing her homework. Inconceivable! She must have been channeled by the Ascending Masters!
This Indigo kid bushwah seems to be all over the Internet - Google gives 30 pages of links/sites about "Indigo Kids." Add to that the "Crystalline Kids, Millennium Kids, Children of The New Earth...." Cripes.
PEOPLE! Children are generally annoying and demanding and insistant and insane. Yours is no different than every other annoying, demanding, insistant, 3-year-old nutjob. Get over it!
:mad:
*I did find additional information about Mr. Carroll's ability to channel something called Kryon of Magnetic Service (http://www.awakening-healing.com/A-HNewsLetters/2002/Kryon.htm). Yeah, whatever.
I was wandering around Craigslist this morning, and found an ad for a babysitter for an "Indigo child."
This, of course, made me ask "What the heck is an Indigo child?"
What is an Indigo Child?
As a summary, here are the ten attributes that best describe this new kind of child, the Indigo Child (named by those who predicted it).
They come into the world with a feeling of royalty (and often act like it)
They have a feeling of "deserving to be here," and are surprised when others don't share that.
Self-worth is not a big issue. They often tell the parents "who they are."
They have difficulty with absolute authority (authority without explanation or choice).
They simply will not do certain things; for example, waiting in line is difficult for them.
They get frustrated with systems that are ritually oriented and don't require creative thought.
They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like "system busters" (nonconforming to any system).
They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around them, they often turn inward, feeling like no other human understands them. School is often extremely difficult for them socially.
They will not respond to "guilt" discipline ("Wait till your father gets home and finds out what you did").
They are not shy in letting you know what they need. --The Indigo Children Website (http://www.indigochild.com)
In addition to the above "attributes," Indigo children are supposedly brilliant (as in uber-genius), and often extremely psychic. Err... okaaayyyyyy....
I can't help but see this as a great big rip off. (Ok, I'm being nice. It's actually a festering load of flyblown horsecrap.) First of all, almost everything on that list describes a poorly disciplined, badly trained child, one that has become so numb to repeated empty threats of punishment that he turns into a raging little bully with no respect for his parents or fear of the consequences of his increasingly selfish and bratty behavior.
Secondly, pretty much every parent privately thinks his/her child is different, better, unusually gifted, or "special" in one way or another. They all seem to think that their child has unique needs or attributes that no other child has. This Indigo Kid hoohaw plays right into that whole "my child is specialer than your child" mentality.
Lee Carrol, the Indigo Kid guru, is nothing more than a conman. He tells parents that their smart but annoyingly hyperactive, poorly disciplined, and spoiled-into-bratdom child is "special" and different, and they all spend wads of dough on his books and seminars to prove it (thereby relieving them of any real responsibility for raising a well-behaved child, because "Gosh, we just can't do anything with him, he's an Indigo Child, you know.").
People are such suckers. :rolleyes:
I began to wonder what a message board for these losers might have to say, so I Googled it and ended up on this page: Crystalline Children ~Channelled from the Ascended Masters (http://www.greatdreams.com/indigo.htm). The link to their message board doesn’t work, but this webpage has some interesting things to say… stuff like:
The Indigo Children are not to be considered "superior or elite" in comparison to other humans, but rather viewed as living demonstrations of the dormant abilities that are NOW beginning to rapidly unfold among ALL HUMAN POPULATIONS. and
It is that these children are able to communicate telepathically, and are speaking to others in other dimensions as a normal event in the course of their play. and
But it was the 1999 book The Indigo Children, by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, that popularized the idea of the next generation. Carroll was an economics major who ran a technical audio business for 30 years until a visit to a psychic prompted a New Age midlife crisis. He found religion and started traveling around the world giving "self-help" seminars. Accompanying him was Tober, a practitioner of metaphysics and hands-on healing as well as a jazz singer who had toured with Benny Goodman and Fred Astaire. The genesis of the book came when they began noticing similar accounts of strange behavior in children from teachers, counselors and psychologists who attended their seminars. As they began to look into these occurrences, they found kids were indeed being born with an "unusual set of psychological attributes" and displaying "a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before."
Note that the guru of this movement reportedly attended college to study the economy (but did he graduate? who knows?) and worked as a sound engineer his whole life. His wife is an over-the-hill hoofer/singer who believes Indigo children come to us from outer space and glow blue (hence, the name). From all indications, neither one has any documented expertise on the subject of dealing with “special” children, or any other thing, apparently. *
Finally, this amazing information:
The peculiarities of Jake and Jan (their families asked that their real names not be used) were apparent from an early age. As a toddler, Jan sometimes spoke using her own language. Instead of "cookie," she would say "cookah" and refused to call a sandwich anything but a "phonic." Odder still, she didn't begin speaking until she was three years old. For Jake's part, he had trouble grasping the concept that he was not in charge. "He has to be told," Jake's mother says. "He doesn't think he needs permission." Spence noticed a similar idiosyncrasy in her granddaughter. "You have to coax her to do her homework," she says.
I don’t know about you, but I’m shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you. Imagine, a toddler who makes up her own words! (As a child, I called milk “noot.” I guess that makes me the first of the Indigo kids!) Imagine, a 3-year-old thinking he's in charge of everyone and everything. Why, the idea on the face of it, is absurd. NO child would think this way, unless he was… “special.” Imagine, a grade schooler who has to be COAXED into doing her homework. Inconceivable! She must have been channeled by the Ascending Masters!
This Indigo kid bushwah seems to be all over the Internet - Google gives 30 pages of links/sites about "Indigo Kids." Add to that the "Crystalline Kids, Millennium Kids, Children of The New Earth...." Cripes.
PEOPLE! Children are generally annoying and demanding and insistant and insane. Yours is no different than every other annoying, demanding, insistant, 3-year-old nutjob. Get over it!
:mad:
*I did find additional information about Mr. Carroll's ability to channel something called Kryon of Magnetic Service (http://www.awakening-healing.com/A-HNewsLetters/2002/Kryon.htm). Yeah, whatever.