Posted on 01/16/2006 9:05:37 AM PST by bagadonutz
Edited on 01/16/2006 9:17:12 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
At a coffee shop in New York one morning two weeks ago, David Minh Wong, 7, was in constant motion. He played with quarters on the table. He dropped them on the floor. He leaned on his mother and walked away.
"Tell him I'm strong," he said to his mother, Yolanda Badillo, 50. She sat in a booth with a neighbor.
"I woke up at 2:16 this morning, and it wasn't raining," he said. "I'm getting bored."
At David's public school, where he is in a program for gifted and talented second-graders, a teacher told Badillo that he is arrogant for a boy his age, and teachers since preschool have described him as bright but sometimes disruptive. But Badillo, a homeopath and holistic health counselor, has her own assessment. To her, David's traits -- his intelligence, empathy and impatience -- make him an "indigo" child.
"He told me when he was 6 months old that he was going to have trouble in school because they wouldn't know where to fit him," she said, adding that he told her this through his energy, not in words. "Our consciousness is changing, it's expanding, and the indigos are here to show us the way," Badillo said. "We were much more connected with the creator before, and we're trying to get back to that connection."
If you have not been in an alternative bookstore lately, it is possible that you have missed the news about indigo children. They represent "perhaps the most exciting, albeit odd, change in basic human nature that has ever been observed and documented," Lee Carroll and Jan Tober write in "The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived" (Hay House). The book has sold 250,000 copies since 1999 and has spawned a cottage industry of books about indigo children.
Actually, at least this theory doesn't rely on medicating the brat.
Adopted child of an older, leftist, single mom?
It's just putting a new age label on something that has existed for a long time: Bright kids who don't fit in.
Any thoughts on this?
Two Wongs don't make a White........
I would be willing to bet that in intact families where there is structure and discipline there are no 'indigo' children with 'auras'.
Chortle.
his intelligence, empathy and impatience -- make him an "indigo" child. >>
Indigo is often a code word for "Asperger's Syndrome."
An Asperger's child is not to be wished on your worst enemy. I love mine to death, but oh my God.
[spit take.] BWHAHAHAHA!!
Barkley is one of the two doctors that did the initial study into ADD back in the 1980s at Worcester Medical. I suspect that he would agree that ADD/ADHD is diagnosed far more often than it exists, but that it does exist and is treatable.
It was just a guess, based on the fact that no father was mentioned.
I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.
Stands-to-reason alert.
I had a friend who took my family portrait to a new age person. She said that my son, my daughter and myself were all indigo humanists, whatever that means.
I figured that a child with a father in the home, although he might be a bit "different," would not be put on a pedestal as a glow-in-the-dark higher evolutionary form. Instead, he would be signed up for martial arts and Cub Scouts so his energy and creativity could be developed productively.
These folks are actually blue in color, not someone who just needs a foot up their backside.
"He told me when he was 6 months old that he was going to have trouble in school because they wouldn't know where to fit him," she said, adding that he told her this through his energy, not in words. "Our consciousness is changing, it's expanding, and the indigos are here to show us the way," Badillo said.
Gee, can't imagine what could have made this 7-year-old "arrogant". Possibly his mother telling him his "energy" spoke to her when he was 6 months old and that he was here on earth to "show us the way". God forbid he ever finds out the rest of the world doesn't think he's so "special."
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