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it is to easy for today's society to label a child put on a shelf like liquor bottles, as you said all children are different but there still children no more no less one smarter one more athletic one more funny one more sensitive. Indigo in my time with the decryption that you have gave in you writing was called a brat. Its to easy today to stick pill down there throats and turn them into zombies I have seen it done. Take a normal child that is a little more active high spirited you might say and label him/her as attention deficit crap, give them some drugs to wash there brain and there normal again. WOW! I am by no means trying to say that this is the cure for indigoism (Brat) but in my day it was a good old fashion ass whoopin.
posted by
spinner
on June 12, 2008 at 10:23 AM
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she's a sharp kid
I don't think she's in need of "special" attention. She can focus when she wants to. The times I have interacted with her I have found nothing out of the ordinary.
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Xeno-x
on June 12, 2008 at 7:13 AM
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I've also got kids that have previously been labeled as "suffering" from ADHD which have been inherited from me (their mother is obsessively "normal"). I would rather not label them at all, but , if I absolutely have to, I'd rather label them special children called Indigo Children, representing an evolutionary change in human behavior and consciousness, than children "suffering" from a physiological and psychological abnormality called "attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder". Then again, it's probably just me, sharing many of the "symptoms", that would prefer to be treated as positively different rather than negatively different. You yourself are not mainstream normal and may even represent the first generation of Indigo Adults!
Either way, words, or signifiers, do not change the signified, only the behavior of those who do the signifying.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on June 11, 2008 at 5:00 PM
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think about you -- I think about me
There are people outside of the mainstream.
And that is good.
I nevered worried about my granddaughter, except that others sometimes worried about her. She's a beautiful kid going her own way, finding her own way.
Nobody should be an image created by adults. All should be allowed to develop as themselves. Adults' responsibility is to help the child develop to its best potential, for all children are nothing but potential adults.
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Xeno-x
on June 11, 2008 at 2:22 PM
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Indigo Children
Hey Kooka - My "new age" Mom bought me The Indigo Child book 10 years ago when both my then school-age boys did not fit the "norm." I refused to drug them, refused to drag them around to specialists, because to me they were funny, creative and smart. My oldest was a bit at a loss socially. My youngest, just cantankorous. With time and constant reminders to "look people in the eye when talking to them," "don't be rude," etc. they turned out to be fantastic older teens with tons of friends and nuanced senses of humor. I don't think "Indigo Child" is a cult or religion or anything, but just a framework to explain a certain kind of child. But, like you, I feel each kid is different and doesn't need a label whatever it is. I never read the book - and it remains on my shelf.
Mal
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gapcohen
on June 11, 2008 at 12:58 PM
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