Apparently Indigo is not just a color anymore
Posted By Kathleen David on May 2, 2006
In a little over a month Caroline will be 3 1/2 years old. She is like any kid her age with her blessings and her faults. She is better at some things then children her age and behind in other skills. We’re still working on potty training. Her language skills are catching up to her peers. Her physical coordination is still above average and her drawing skills continue to grow. She is tall for her age so people always assume she is older than she is. She has temper tantrums that can make her hard to deal with on occation. She also gives the best full-body contact hugs with love just vibrating out of her. She loves and is loved.
I can remember the pyramid crazy back when King Tut first toured the United States. Everyone was obsessed with the pyramids and all things Egyptian. There were theories as to how pyramid power worked and how they were built. I give the builders of the pyramids lots of credit for what they did. Then there was the Chariot of the Gods crazy. Does anyone besides me remember that book and its sequels? Aliens gave the human race a push to make it the fine thing it is today.
The newest theory to explain the human race especially the behavior of our children is now making the rounds.
Apparently the misbehavior of our children is because they are more highly evolved than us.
From the article
Want to know if your child qualifies as “indigo”? According to Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, authors of “The Indigo Children,” you’ve probably got an indigo on your hands if you notice the following:
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.
This sounds like just about every kid I know including myself. I could take this list and say that our cats are the next step in cat evolution. Children are born savages. They learn the society norms and manners through their interaction with the people around them. Parents have to teach their kids how to deal with the world. To me this is giving the parent a big out from taming the inner savage since their kid is s00per-speshul (internet spelling on purpose) and a highly evolved form of human.
I feel for the teachers that are either having to deal with or will shortly have to deal with this. I work hard to instruct Caroline as to what behavior is proper and what behavior will not be tolerated. Has she thrown a fit in public? Oh yeah. We have taken her out of restaurants and stores so that the other patrons won’t be disturbed by our daughter’s bad behavior. I hope by the time she is in preschool, she will have the basic rules down as to what is acceptable in public. She is already got please, thank you, and sorry down and knows how to use them in a social situation. I will civilize my child and she will have to learn to follow the rules. It didn’t destroy me or my creativity and I don’t think it will mess her up either. Just letting ones kid “do their own thing” because they are s00per-spechul is the path to raising self-centered me-first brats and doesn’t the world have enough of those as it is?
I am grateful that my parents taught me by example how to deal with my children.
If Indigo were just that list, I would dismiss it as just the latest version of the “Royal Child” mentality that has been with us ever since the 50’s. But it is even worse than that. As you hint at with “pyramid power” and “Chariots”, Indigo has a lot of New Age influences/parallels, often calling upon supernatural explanations. One article I read had a father who was worried that his son was hearing voices, until an Indigo seminar informed him that his child was simply telepathic, and that he was reading the minds of his classmates. (The kid, being the wise soul that he was, already knew this, of course. Along with the fact that he was an “Avatar”, with the power over the four elements. Do parents not watch TV anymore?)
Indigo is going to produce the usual level of screwed up kids. But it is really going to screw up those who need help the most. (Which in the end is probably true of all parenting fads. I mean, obviously there is nothing wrong with *your* kid, it is society’s innapropriate measures that make them look worse than other people’s kids…)
That’s funny. I’ve always just called them “Liberals”. (Okay, I’m sorry. that was just to easy to let go) 8^)
Wow, this is a new one to me. So I can epect to get kids who think the voices in their heads come from telepathy. If true, those voices will be saying very harsh things about their parents.
Kathleen, I totally remember Chariots of the Gods. Erich Von Daniken was the name of the author, I think. In retrospect his theories seem like a load of hooey but I was impressed with them at the time. By the tiem of his last book (Gold of the Gods, I think) it was obvious that he’d milked this particular cash cow dry.
If a future Vion Daniken ever finds a copy of one of Peter’s comic books he’ll conclude that it was an account of actual alien contact. Von daniken would look at a carving of men with wind=gs and ask where the ancients ever got the idea of flight. I dunno Erich, maybe they saw a, you know, BIRD or something! Maybe imagination wasn’t something that was only recently invented!
I have a close freind of the family who is “metaphysical” and has been told by several “psychics” that her grown children are indigos and that my kids are “crystal” (which is the next stage after indigo) and that i am an indigo as well. I proceeded to tell her that i hate labels and why couldn’t i be multi-colored as I hate limitations. >:)
The ironic things is the two guys married into the family that the lady fights with or disagrees with a LOT were both classified as being blank like rocks and no specialness at all about them. They were not surprised and thought the other stuff was hooey anyway so of course they would not be “indigo”.
I am still trying to understand how being a self-centered spoiled brat as being the next stage of human evolution.
I’m confused…this “indigo” child sounds an awful lot like Freud’s “Id” stage of ego development. Of course it’s been a long time since I did undergrad Psychology.
Megan
Well, the list certainly is not a good explaination for indigo children. Yeah, it’s a very esoteric concept and anyone who doesn’t believe in these kind of things shouldn’t bother to try to understand it. But I don’t think we should mock it.
But Pascal, the list comes from an advocacy site for Indigo children, so you can hardly call it a biased opinion – it’s their own words after all. As for not mocking it – the entire New Age movement deserves to be mocked every chance it gets, the only other alternative is to take it seriously, and that would be just dumb…
Pascal, do you have children?
If left uncorrected and undsciplined, most if not all children will turn into the spoiled, self centred, self osbessed individuals described above. I feel sorry for these children as they are not “socialised” (have not LEARNED to interact appropriately) properly within a society.
Learning impulse control is part fo grwoing up. CHildren need boundaries and to be told “No”. Children have to learn that the planet doesn’t revolve around them, and that they are not the centre of the universe. Humans operate within groups and all have to learn their places in the scheme.
Rant over.
Megan