Indigo Children Or Selfish, Undisciplined Children?

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I got asked a couple of weeks ago if I could write a blog on the Indigo Children.  I decided before I put pen to paper to research this a little more, I had read some books and watched a couple of movies on them, but that was a few years back.

First for those of you who don’t know about these children let me fill you in on the basics.  Indigo children is a term used to describe children who are believed to possess special, unusual and sometimes supernatural traits or abilities.  The term is pseudoscientific.  The idea is based on new age concepts developed in the 1970′s by Nancy Ann Tappe and further developed by Jan Tober and Lee Carroll.  The concept of indigo children gained popular interest with the publication of a series of books in the late 1990′s and the release of several films in the following decade.  A variety of books, conferences and related materials have been created surrounding belief in the idea of indigo children and their nature and abilities.  The interpretations of these beliefs range from being the next stage in human evolution, in some cases possessing paranormal abilites such as telepathy, to the belief that they are more empathic and creative than their peers.

Although no scientific studies give credibility to the existence of indigo children or their traits, the phenomenon appeals to some parents whose children have been diagnosed with learning disabilities and to parents seeking to believe that their children are special.  Skeptics view this as a way for parents to avoid proper (and generally pharmaceutical) pediatric treatment or a psychiatric diagnosis.  The list of traits used to describe the children has also been criticized for being vague enough to be applied to almost anyone, a form of the forer effect.  The phenomenon has been criticized as a means of making money from credulous parents through the sales of related products and services.

There have been many books, articles and even movies made about the Indigo children, and from reading alot of these articles and books many years ago I was always under the impression that the Indigo children were a spiritual higher being sent to the earth plane to lead us out of the shit and into a newer, better future.
However I either didn’t read right or I didn’t totally understand.  Most of these Indigo Children have been diagnosed with ADHD, ADD or learning disabilities.  There are even online tests that you can do, to see if your child is an Indigo Child.  I took 3 of these tests, and the characteristics could of applied to 2 of my 3 children.  The oldest and youngest.  However those 2 children don’t have ADHD, or ADD. They just don’t like being told what to do, and think that they can do what they want when they want.  Is the future the Indigo children are going to bring us?  A future where we don’t have to take responsibility for our actions, and we don’t have to listen to authority.

The alleged characteristics include:

-the belief that they are empathetic, curious, strong-willed, independent, and often perceived by friends and family as being strange;

-possess a clear sense of self-definition and purpose;

-exhibit a strong innate sub-conscious spirituality from early childhood (which, however, does not necessarily imply a direct interest in spiritual or religious areas);

-a strong feeling of entitlement, or “deserving to be here”.

Other alleged traits include:

-a high intelligence quotient, an inherent intuitive ability; and

-resistance to rigid, control-based paradigms of authority.

-According to Tober and Carroll, indigo children may function poorly in conventional schools due to their rejection of rigid authority, being smarter (or more spiritually mature) than their teachers, and a lack of response to guilt-, fear- or manipulation-based discipline.
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