What's the best book to read about Indigo Children?

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Looks like it's between Doreen Virtue and another one - any thoughts?

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What are Indigo children?

You'd best look it up DM... some Mners like to have a field day taking the pee out of the possibilty of their existence...

So there's already threads about this? I keep hearing about them at the mo but I don't really know anything about them...

wiki indigo children

(ponders having a field day...)

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I thought Indigo children was last year's thing.

Perhaps the mum at the school was referring something like dyslexia eh cod!

Yeah Kerry they're aliens, that's right.

Make sure you keep those minds tightly closed folks.. you wouldn't want to let anything in that takes you outside your comfort zone npw would you!

Personally I am not sure what I think about this whole indigo thing but I am not biggoted enough to assume that just because I don't fully understand it or take it on board, that it's obviously total crap. To have that view, you would have to very confident that you knew everything about everything wouldn't you!

Shiny, I don't think i know everything about everything but some things just spell bullshit. This being one of them.

According to my yoga teacher, we're still waiting for a generation of crystal children who will save the world! Or something like that.....

Interesting woman.

To you Christina. Which is fine. But perhaps you should keep the "bullshit" opinion to yourself? It perhaps belittles the thoughts/beliefs of others somewhat.. you think?

Next step up fron indigo apparently.

From Wikipedia: Nancy Ann Tappe (who first publicized the concept) estimates that 97 percent of children under ten and 70 percent of those age 15 to 25 are "Indigo." How can that not be bullshit? I've never met one, yet the author's own "statistics" would suggest I should have.

They are not indigo coloured Christina! You wouldn't automatically know if you'd met one presumably!!!

Anyway that's just Nancy Whatserface's opinion.. take it up with her!

The concept of today's children being more evolved and spiritually aware is certainly not that amazing or bullshit inducing! God know's the world needs it...

I would have, Shiny, if the purported characteristics of Indigo children include:

• They are often labeled with the psychiatric diagnoses of Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and also Autism.
• They are highly sensitive, both emotionally and physically, and most suffer from a low self-esteem.
• Many have nervous system problems such as excessive anxiety, which is claimed to be linked to their higher vibrational frequency, and are also prone to depression
• They often suffer from sleeping problems, such as insomnia, frequent nightmares, night terrors and sleep paralysis.[6]
• They are very empathic, and can easily detect or are in tune with the thoughts of others.[7]
• They have great intuitive power.[6]
• They often have an insatiable curiosity, and love to ask questions as well as questioning everything around them.[6]
• They are naturally drawn to matters concerning mysteries, spirituality, the paranormal and the occult.[6]
• They oppose unquestioned authority and have a proclivity for generating their own solutions to problems and holding to explanations which are usually contradictory to convention.[8]
• They become anti-social when not around other Indigo Children.[8]
• They act and feel as with a strong sense of entitlement.[8]
• They have a clear sense of self-definition and in knowing who they are.[8]
• Most of them feel the need to make a significant difference in the world, and they believe or are fully aware of having a special or high purpose in life.[5][7]

Altogether not a very happy state and I think most children I see around wouldn't fit into any of these categories.

But "seeing children around" doesn't equip you with knowledge about any of these qualities that they may or may not have!!

Got to go now.. I'll argue with you later .. meeting FioFio for lunch...

Qualities? What qualities do you see in the list above? What's wrong with having happy children?

Using that criteria, I must be an indigo child!

Indigo children is a pile of shite. Kids that fit the criteria need to see a good OT and have a decent sensory programme put into place. They don't need to spend their life so oversensitive that they become anxious and suffer low esteem.

Actually looking at that list- ds1 ticks every box that he's capable of (so he can't ask questions but his insatiable curiosty means he'll flood both the kitchen and bathroom in one hour) & he's pretty anti social most of the time, perhaps we need another indigo child on the scene. He's not an indigo child, he's disabled. Perhaps i could relabel him an indigo child and it would be a good excuse to stop trying with him.

oh slightly more helpfully if you think you have an indigo child do read 'the out of synch child'. It's cheap and it gives all sorts of exercises that will help the child to cope with daily life and not implode in a ball of anxiety. Hypersesitivities are treatable and are worth putting the time in to do as it makes a big difference to the child.

There was a programme on TV about Indigo children last year. It may have been unbalanced, but the children they featured were either children with various disabilities with parents in denial, or children of parents who had serious problems themselves, or in one case, the child of a parent who was using her as a money making side show. I am very open minded, but I do think that people need to be very careful before buying into this particular way of thinking.