THE INDIGO CHILDREN: The Challenge of the Indigo Children

The Challenge of the Indigo Children

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Contemporary children are different. It shows :

a new and unusual set of psychological attributes
patterns of behaviour which have not been documented before

Are there children in your classes who display some of these characteristics?

Much less likely than the other children in class to pay attention to school work and make seemingly inexplicable mistakes.
Appear to have substantially more difficulty sustaining concentration when engaged in practical or play activities.
Seem unable to listen even when spoken to directly.
Do not complete tasks which they have been given.
Unable to get hold of themselves and the set task sufficiently to organize their thoughts and plan a reasonable course of action, yet they do understand what is expected of them when questioned.
Actively avoid and clearly dislike tasks and activities that demand sustained concentration and thought.
Regularly manage to lose things – school items such as pens ans pencils, but also precious personal things like toys.
Easily distracted, turning towards movement and noise. ‘Over-alert’.
Forget routine tasks.
Appear restless in all situations.
Show a clear pattern of wandering around the room when the task demands that they are seated.
Take any opportunity for running around or climbing.
Do not engage in quiet play.
Seem persistently active, with little need for rest periods.
Say things which are not thought out; talk for the sake of it.
Raise hands and blurt out answers before the question is finished, and the real answer can be known.
Have real problems turn-taking.
Have weak social skills; unable to join conversations and play other than by barging in.

This behaviour in not a recent phenomenon.
Such children are described as exhibiting the three behaviours of:

Attention difficulties
Hyperactivity
Impulsivity.
At best, they are labelled as being a nuisance, uncooperative, hyperactive, antisocial, negative, out of control……
In the worst case, they are labelled as having ADD (Attention Deficiency Disorder) or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder)
The major answer to such beahviour by the authorities (Educational, Social and Medical) is to prescribe psychotropic drugs based on amphetamines:
Ritalin (Methylphenidate), Dexedrine (Dexamphetamine), Cylert, Tofranil, Norpamin, Prozac, Paxil….

There has been a significant increase in the diagnosis of ADD/ADHD and subsequent prescription of Ritalin etc. in the past 20 years:

In USA

In 1990 900, 000 children were on Ritalin
In 2000 5 million children were on Ritalin

In AUSTRALIA

1 in every 36 boys in New South Wales, Australia takes Ritalin

In UK

In 1992 2,000 prescriptions for Ritalin were written
In 1999 158, 000 prescriptions for Ritalin were written
In 2001 254, 000 prescriptions for Ritalin were written
73, 200 6-16 year-olds in England & Wales have been diagnosed with severe ADHD
1.7% of the population/6-8% of the child population has been diagnosed as having ADHD

The system has tried to ascribe the increase in ADD/ADHD to a range of causes, from poor parenting, to inadequate (junk food) diet, to environmental issues (TV/Computer abuse), to changes in parts of the brain that control impulses and concentration, and which are genetic.

Why ‘Indigo’ Children?

In 1982, Nancy Ann Tappe published Understanding Your Life through Colour in which she classified certain types of human attributes which seemed to correlate to the colours of the electromagnetic field surrounding all living things – in the case of humans, the auric field. She found that a deep blue colour was being seen in about 80% of children born after 1980. She called this colour ‘indigo’.

The term was then coined by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober for their ground-breaking book 1999 on the new children.

It is no coincidence that ‘indigo’ is also the colour at which the 6th chakra – the so-called ‘third eye’ – primarily spins. This is the chakra which regulates psychic phenomena.

INDIGO CHILDREN IN NUMBERS

BORN AFTER PERCENTAGE
2000 95%
1994 90%
1992 85%
1984 15-20%
1974 10-15%
1964 5-10%
PRE-1964 0-5%

The ten most common traits of Indigo Children are:

they have a feeling of royalty
they feel they deserve to be here
self-worth is not very important to them
they have difficulty with absolute authority
they simply won’t do certain things
they get frustrated with ritual-oriented systems
they often see better ways of doing things
they often seem antisocial
they do not respond to ‘guilt’ discipline
they tell you what they need
They respond best when treated like a respected adult.

They are also usually:

headstrong and strong-willed
isolationist
easily bored
seek real, deep and lasting friendships
bond easily with plants and animals

The Indigo Child at School
At school this means they behave differently in important areas of classroom activity such as :

Knowledge

They can suck up knowledge like a sponge, especially if they like or are drawn to a subject, which makes them very advanced in their areas of interest

Experience

They know that experiencing life helps them learn best, so they create the experiences they need to help them with their current problem or area where they need to grow.

Relationships

They respond best when treated like a respected adult/equal. If you’re not playing your part of the relationship properly, they feel justified in challenging you about it.

Learning

They have an inherent strong determination to work things through for themselves and only want outside guidance if it’s presented to them with respect and within a format of true choice. They prefer to work things out for themselves.

Indigo Children live instinctively.