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Summary: Must read book
Review: This is an incredible book, that should be read by anyone that knows of someone that is classified as ADD/ADHD or someone you know that is on ridlin. This book is one of the first of its kind to actually help explain how special the children are that are very active. I have two children that I can understand better with the help of this book. It shows that these children are special and they are different, they won't behave like other children in school settings, and that is okay, you just need to learn how to work with them differently.Thanks again for a great book. This is a book you will want to read slowly and read over and over again, to not miss any of the great points/ideas that are presented.
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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: I found this book very helpful, especially in terms of the references made to ADD,or ADHD children. My son has been "clinically" diagnosed as ADHD. Though I know this to be a concern for parents, I don't believe this is correct for him. The description for the indigo child seemed to be more of what we were observing. He has a strong spiritual side that astounds all of the family. I found the letters written by the kids who believe they are like this to be the most valuable part of the book. They felt they were "okay" and now understood what this was all about. I also found the tips on Blue-green algae helpful, as I have been giving that to my son, and it has made a difference. I feel too often we discount what our children say, because they are children. I found this book refreshing as it listened to the children and enabled we parents to hear them.
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Summary: A little disappointed
Review: Lee Caroll is great and I have enjoyed all the Kryon books. I have been working with challenging children for many years now and I am a little disappointed by the book. Although I am sure that the "Indigo Child " phenomenon exists, as I have witnessed it myself in my classroom, I found the book very simplistic and not properly supported by hard facts. Too many comments from people that are deeply into the new age movement talking about their own children being amzingly special..Don't we all think that of our own children? As a worker in the field I was looking forward to something a bit more substancial. Also beware of the "I am an Indigo Child " syndrome that seems to be developing in some spiritual circles, with claims of specialness and uniqueness. Aren't we all one? Isn't that what it is all about?
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Summary: Unsatisfying
Review: Though this book is filled with sound advice for parents, I was hoping for more evidence of qualitative differences regarding the "indigo' phenomeneon. However, only testimonials were offered. I found no differentiation regarding modern children contrasted to precocious children of the past. A great book for one who needs a book to figure out that their child is special.
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Summary: for our kids sake
Review: As a teacher I found this book both fasinating and disturbing. To read about possible alterative treatment for ADD and the resoning behind why these kids are drugged and not looked at as special children with special gifts was disturbing. I now look at my students in a different light. A must read for all teachers.
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Summary: Indigo Children Are Real
Review: I have dealt with the "Indigo Children" I am a firm believer that these children are direct products of today's society. Our children today have problems that did not exist 100 years ago... however a lot of the vaccinations, drugs, food additives, and environmental toxins that exist today did not exist 100 years ago. This book enlightens us as to what the indigo children phenom is. Some even have awakened gifts. I thank the author for her well written book. Namaste
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Summary: Special Children or Special Circumstances?
Review: As a person who has been closely involved with children for over 40 years (pediatric nurse, youth social worker and mother of 4), I found this book interesting. The Indigo Children are described as being born in very recent times. I beg to differ. I can remember dealing with children like that in the 60s and 70s. However, societal awareness of them as "special" in the Indigo manner was not present. They were often csonsidered to be "incorrigible" and "uneducable". These children were often sent to juvenile incarceration facilities, foster homes, and/or tranquilized with Librium.
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Summary: New kids or new parents?
Review: As the mother of five children, a clinical hypnotherapist with over 25 years experience in counseling, and wife to a theoretical physicist who has done work in the areas of consciousness, I was interested in this book after several people suggested it to me. However, after reading it, I was left with a rather sick and sad feeling about not only the future of these children, but the future of a world that has created them. Yes, I have seen them... I have worked with them, but in an altogether differen context than the approach taken by these authors. Erik H. Erikson's landmark book "Childhood and Society," which deals with the relationship between childhood training and cultural accomplishment would be a better book to read to understand this phenomenon. Erikson writes: "Psychopathology is the child of medicine which had its illustrious origin in the quest for the location and causation of disease. Our institutions of learning are committed to this quest, which gives to those who suffer, as well as to those who administer, the magic reassurance emanating from scientific tradition and prestige. It is reassureing to think of a neurosis as a disease, because it does feel like an affliction. It is, in fact, often accompanied by circumscribed somatic suffering: and we have well-defined approaches to disease, both on the individual and on the epidemiological level. "...Yet something strange is happening. As we try to think of neuroses as diseases, we gradually come to reconsider the whole problem of disease. Instead of arriving at a better definition of neurosis, we find that some widespread diseases... seem to acquire new meaning by being considered equivalent to neurotic symptoms... "...'Clinical' once designated the function of a priest at the sickbed when the somatic struggle seemed to be coming to an end, and when the soul needed guidance for a lonely meeting with its Maker. ...The assumption was that in such cases the sickness was what we today might call spirituo-somatic. The word 'clinical' has long since shed this clerical garb. But it is regaining some of its old connotation, for we learn that a neurotic person, no matter where and how and why he feels sick, is crippled at the core, no matter what you call that ordered or ordering core. He may not become exposed to the final loneliness of death, but he experiences that numbing loneliness, that isolation and disorganization of experience, which we call neurotic anxiety." (p. 24) I think that what we are dealing with in these children who fit the profile of Carroll and Tober's book is the fact that they are "crippled at the core." Why is this so? Well, we have only to look around us to see the answer. It lies not only in our society, the conflicts, the media, the economics, but even more fundamentally, in the relation between parent and child which is intimately connected to and intertwined with all of these things. There is also one chief contributing factor that crops up over and over again: abnegation of responsiblity and denial of consequences. In this "child centered" society of ours, is it not natural that they should become tyrannical, irresponsible, incapable of controlling themselves, egocentric, and just plain selfish? The question is not what is different about the children, the question is: what is different about the parents, the society, the context in which the children are brought into the world and reared? What are the philosophical underpinnings of the way we view our children, the way we respond to them? What do we teach them about the universe and its laws in the ways we reward and/or punish them? Do they have the idea that the world owes them, that they own it because this is the idea we have conveyed to them? Do they have the idea that they don't have to control themselves, because there are no real consequences in response to their behavior? And, we can't dump this in the laps of the parents entirely... because the parents only know what they are taught, what they are made to understand via the various professions, the laws, and the society. They are the "agents" of our reality, not the rulers. The bottom line is: no pain, no gain. Make of it what you will. We are living with the results of the "no blame, no pain" philosophy, and the universe has a nasty way of creating balance if we don't.
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Summary: Children for the new millennium
Review: So many children are misunderstood and abused, verbally or physically, or medically. This book explains what the Indigo children are all about, and encourages respect and nurturing for them in their differences instead of drugging them to conform to the old paradigm. We need these millennial children unharmed to guide us all through the new millennium. If you have any young children in your life, please read this book!
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Summary: Let's not jump the gun
Review: Having lived inside that head along with my spouse we have discovered that this type of thought process does not function in this day and age and if taking a medication allows us to function in our society the way that we as people have set it up then where is the fault. Do things like low self-esteem, suicide, social outcasting, immens feelings of being overwhelmed by the smallest of tasks, chronic frustration and anxiety, addictions, etc. sound like what you would wish for youself or your children? Think before you leap to a conclusion...if you can.We found the book to be very interesting and certainly adds a new slant to our children of today. I would like to point out that "add/adhd", "indigo children" is really a group of behaviors exhibited by an individual at varying degrees and levels that we recognize as not the "norm". What we call it is of no significance to the actual set of behaviors themselves. They are key words that help people recognize the behaviors rather than list them off.
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