Indigo Children : The New Kids Have Arrived

The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived by Lee Carroll & Jan Tober

Parents, if you have small children this book is for you!

The Indigo Child is a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes, revealing a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before. This pattern has singularly unique factors that call for parents and teachers to change their treatment and upbringing of these kids to assist them in achieving balance and harmony in their lives, and to help them avoid frustration.

In this groundbreaking book, international authors and lecturers Lee Carroll and Jan Tober answer many of the often-puzzling questions surrounding Indigo children.

Can we really be seeing human evolution in the kids today? Are they smarter? Why do so many of our children today seem to be "system busters"? Why are they committing suicide and killing each other? Why are so many of our best children being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)? Are all of them really ADD kids. . . in need of being drugged, or is there more to this story?

Join international authors and lecturers Lee Carroll and Jan Tober as they bring together some very fine minds to discuss and expose this exciting premise. Many alternate methods of treating ADD are presented, and you won't believe some of the spiritual aspects of this study! These children are very different, and represent a great percentage of all the children being born today... worldwide. They come in "knowing" who they are, and must be recognized and celebrated with the correct guidance.

This book is a must for parents!

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One - What Is an Indigo Child?

Richard Seigle, M.D. - Human Categorizing Systems
Nancy Ann Tappe - Introduction to the Indigos
Barbara Dillenger, Ph.D. - About the Indigo Child
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. - gifted or Troubled?
Kathy A. McCloskey, Ph.D. - The New Powerful Children
Debra Hegerle - Indigo Children
Robert Gerard, Ph.D. - Emissaries from Heaven

Chapter Two - What Can Be Done?

Nancy Ann Tappe - Being a Guide
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. - Parenting an Indigo Child
Kathy A. McCloskey, Ph.D. - Things to Remember When Raising Indigo Children
Debra Hegerle - Boredom and Honesty
Judith Spitler McKee, Ed.D. - Sending Potent, Positive Messages to Children
Robert Gerard, Ph.D. - Disciplining the Indigo Child
Robert P. Ocker - A Heart-Centered Journey
Cathy Patterson - Strategies to Use in Guiding Indigo Children
Robert P. Ocker - Honoring the Little Ones as Gifts
Jennifer Palmer - Teaching the Children
The Montessori Schools
The Waldorf Schools
Pauline Rogers - Noncompetitive Life Games
Joyce Seyburn - Seven Secrets to Raising a Happy and Healthy Child

Chapter Three - Spiritual Aspects of Indigoes

Melanie Melvin, Ph.D. - Respecting the Indigo Children
Robert P. Ocker - A Heart-Centered Journey
Nancy Ann Tappe - Indigo Spirituality
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. - Parenting and the Indigo Child
Rev. Dr. Laurie Joy Pinkham - My Dear Indigoes!

Chapter Four - Health Issues

Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. - Is Compliance Healthy?
Keith R. Smith - Chronic Reversed Polarity in Today's Special Children
Karen Eck - A Nutritional Answer
Deborah Grossman, R.N. - Protocol for supplementing Your ADHD Child
Karen Bolesky - Soma Work: A Case Study

Chapter Five - Messages from Indigos

Ryan Makuski - Growing Up Indigo
Candice Creelman - All You Need Is Love

Chapter Six - Summary

APPENDIX
Contributor Biographies
Endnotes
About the Authors

Excerpt from Chapter One:

What Is an Indigo Child?

What is an Indigo Child? And why do we call them Indigo? First, the definition: an Indigo Child is one who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes and shows a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before. This pattern has common unique factors that suggest that those who interact with them (parents, in particular) change their treatment and upbringing of them in order to achieve balance. To ignore these new patterns is to potentially create imbalance and frustration in the mind of this precious new life. The subject of this chapter is to identify, qualify, and validate the attributes of an Indigo Child.

There seem to be several kinds of Indigos, and we will describe them later in this chapter, but in the following list we can give you some of the most common behavioral patterns. Do these fit anyone you know?

Here are ten of the most common traits of Indigo Children:

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 the parents "who they are."
   

4. They have difficulty with absolute authority (authority without explanation or choice).
   

5. They simply will 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" (nonconforming to any system).
   

8. 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.
   

9. They will not respond to "guilt" discipline ("Wait till your father gets home and finds out what you did").
   

10. They are not shy in letting you know what they need.

We will examine some of these traits later in a closer way, but next we wish to let you know why these children are called Indigo.

Throughout the history of psychology, there have been systems of grouping human behavior. Indeed, often we all seem to fall into "clumps" of behavior patterns, sometimes fun to read about and identify. These groupings try to identify and correlate human actions in many different ways - undoubtedly searching for some formula that neatly fits everyone into a slot of some kind, helping those who deal with the study of the human mind. Some of these systems are ancient; some are very new.

Right away, we would like to turn to a psychiatrist for a very brief validation of this fact, so we can begin on a solid academic footing. Richard Seigle not only is a practicing doctor, but also is extremely involved in human and spiritual studies within the Navajo Indian Nation.

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