Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm an Indigo Kid
So screw you.
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.
The parents want to be their childrens' best friends, and so fail to teach them respect for authority and discipline.
The article doesn't mention Alexandra's father, either. Aliens?
Yeah, we have four of them. They don't suffer fools gladly. I guess they get that honestly from both SirKit and me! ;o)
We figure out a long time ago that they were all different from most kids their ages and never had a problem with it, especially considering the kids their ages! They've each (except for the youngest, and he has his three older siblings until he does) found small groups of friends who share similar interests, so that's all they need.
And, of course, they never cast any blame on their complete failure in their role as the child's first teachers.
If you aren't willing to do anything about your child's bad behavior, it is best to blame it on everyone else. Too many parents use "hope" as a parenting tool i.e. I hope he stops doing that. Confrontation is bad in their eyes because they don't have the will to win. I find that especially true of single moms raising boys. Probably because I don't know any single dads.
In dealing with my 7 year old son I agree with his teacher about everything unless a voice from heaven tells me otherwise.
I explain to him his job is to work to her satisfaction, however she defines it. This will require more character of him than having long conferences about whether or not she understands him.
And as a trusted news personality, I can be useful in rounding up others...
I've had "one of those" tell me that I'm just not from around this part of the Universe. Sure enough, I really don't fit in.
>>I would be willing to bet that in intact families where there is structure and discipline there are no 'indigo' children with 'auras'.<<
You would win that bet. Instead of "auras" and "special communication energies", we have well-disciplined children who say "Yes please," "Ma'am" and "sir", and know how to comport themselves in public.
This latest round of claptrap is just another excuse for lazy-a$$ed parents who don't want to actually RAISE their children.
Okay, you reckon this shows that he is smarter than they are?
When your done I will by the list of Indigo parents so I can sell them my Indigo Life Skills Kit for $2,000 with a yearly $200 maintenance package. The kit contains all the information a parent of an Indigo needs to raise these wonderful children.
If your kid can't cope with -- what they perceive to be unfair grading and unfair treatment in dicipline they won't get far in the working world. Just because a kid thinks something is 'unfair' doesn't mean that it necessarily is.
"he is smarter than they are"
For sure he is smarter than I am. I believed all that work hard in school and get ahead propaganda. But my parents were smarter than I was and wouldn't put up with a lazy kid.
For a minute I thought the article was going to say that these two "women" were reproducing...
It's not that I reincarnate, it's that neither side wants my sorry butt and they keep throwing me back.
Just because a kid thinks something is 'unfair'...
I agree 100% and you are correct unless as we have just read that the child is an Indigo Child well then of course the child is correct.
Elementary!
"You will not apply my precept," he said, shaking his head. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER IMPROBABLE, must be the truth?"- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four
I thought this was gonna be something like The Blue People of Troublesome Creek
These folks are actually blue in color, not someone who just needs a foot up their backside.
***What an interesting (Blue) family history! Thanks for the reference.
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