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[prof_mom]

I think these are the children who never hear no in their lives. What will they become as adults?

[john_proctor]

After reflection:

I now declare myself to be "Indigo Assistant Professor of Religion."

I'm having my business cards changed after the New Year.

I wish you would apply to our faculty position at KFC. We could use someone with your humor background.

Create a chaired 'Indigo Assistant Professorate of Philosophy, Religion and the Proper treatment of Cats" and I'm there.

[john_proctor]

After reflection:

I now declare myself to be "Indigo Assistant Professor of Religion."

I'm having my business cards changed after the New Year.

I wish you would apply to our faculty position at KFC. We could use someone with your humor background.

Create a chaired 'Indigo Assistant Professorate of Philosophy, Religion and the Proper treatment of Cats" and I'm there.

Of course, you are also aware I have a slightly more complex version of the 'two body problem' to deal with.

You recall Juan Proctoro . . .

[prof_mom]

After reflection:

I now declare myself to be "Indigo Assistant Professor of Religion."

I'm having my business cards changed after the New Year.

I wish you would apply to our faculty position at KFC. We could use someone with your humor background.

Create a chaired 'Indigo Assistant Professorate of Philosophy, Religion and the Proper treatment of Cats" and I'm there.

Of course, you are also aware I have a slightly more complex version of the 'two body problem' to deal with.

You recall Juan Proctoro . . .

Actually, most of us have a different name for the KFC "activities." Have Juan Proctoro join KFC as our chaired 'Indigo Assistant Professorate of Philosophy, Religion and the Proper treatment of Cats." Your chair can be endowed by Puritina Kitty Chow, or similar. You can decide the rest of your character. Will you be Prof Not-Your-Mom's husband, new lover, or another person who avoids her advances like Trentsands?

I'll stop hijacking this thread to talk KFC. People have PMd me to say they don't want me to hijack threads to talk about KFC.

[zharkov]

I guy I went to grad school and I had a great idea for a scam, even better than this indigo jazz.  We'd be druids, and since there is next to nothing really known about what the druids really believed, we'd write books and give talks to gullible people about the secret teachings of the druids.  Just call me Carlos O'Castenada.  I'm not sure why we never followed through; it would have paid better than this prof work.

[limeorchid]

A lot of parents whom  I am acquainted with believe in the Indigo Child thing. I find them embarrassing. Having seen it up close, I feel that these parents are using it as a scapegoat.

Human children are not any diffrent now than they have ever been. Society is what is diffrent. Parents both have to work, kids do not receive enough time with them for pleasure or discipline. The diet that kids eat nowdays in the majority of cases, is filled with sugar and dye and has very little nutritional value. We are so busy that most kids start their day off with cereal, pop-tarts, carnation instant breakfast and so on. This leads them to crash and burn often times. We then give them heavy medication for ADHD.

Kids, unlike babies, have been around for a few years and yes, they can be and often times are more difficult to deal with. I feel this is a product of nurture, not nature.

The reason kids are diffrent from how they used to be lie not in the cosmic Indigo Child but rather in their experiences of the world as it currently exist.

Dual income families with very little support.  (Simplify or hire a loving child care provider.)

Poor diet. (Eat fewer meals out and fewer sugar foods, a balanced diet.)

Technology.(Limit exposure to computers, TV, i-pod, video games. Keep close track of how kids are using the computer.) Plant a small garden, get them outside every day.

Consumer driven society. (Decrease exposure and take the time to explain advertising. Do not let's kids have everything they see on TV or just because someone else has it.)

These are some of the problems, not all. Also some solutions, not all.

Rather than society correcting it's self or taking responsibility, we medicate kids and/or label them Indigo Children.

An easy way out. A scapegoat. I am afraid to see what will happen in the future for these kids who are labeled Indigo Children.

Go fly a kite.

[francie_]

I think these are the children who never hear no in their lives. What will they become as adults?

Dictators of small nations trying to acquire nu-cu-lar capabilities.

[fiona]

The description of Indigo Children is almost exactly the same as descriptions of people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I wonder why parents want to rationalize unleashing NPD people on the world.

The NPD people I've known--mostly musicians--are difficult and unhappy people, and their middle to old ages are really terrible, as they've frightened or driven away anyone who can be friendly or helpful.

See this site, for instance:

http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/dsm-iv.html#npd

[prof_mom]

The description of Indigo Children is almost exactly the same as descriptions of people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I wonder why parents want to rationalize unleashing NPD people on the world.

The NPD people I've known--mostly musicians--are difficult and unhappy people, and their middle to old ages are really terrible, as they've frightened or driven away anyone who can be friendly or helpful.

See this site, for instance:

http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/dsm-iv.html#npd

Fiona, that is really interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.

[larryc]

I guy I went to grad school and I had a great idea for a scam, even better than this indigo jazz.  We'd be druids, and since there is next to nothing really known about what the druids really believed, we'd write books and give talks to gullible people about the secret teachings of the druids.

Zharkov, this is brilliant! Can I get in on this? I study Native American religious history and I can add a little New Agey shaman-lite to the mix.  We'll tell our converts that the Druids believed in peace, cooperation, nature, sustainability, generosity, and used "hu." We will wait until after the vision quests to introduce the free love thing.

[grasshopper]

We will wait until after the vision quests to introduce the free love thing.

hee hee hee.

You've got a little bit of devil in you, dontcha?

[trentsands]

Society is what is diffrent. Parents both have to work, kids do not receive enough time with them for pleasure or discipline.

Can't attest to your other points, but at least regarding time with parents, children in the US actually spend more time with their fathers than they did in the 50's and 60's.

[musti]

This Indigo children fad is basically an updated version of at least two decades old belief that more and more "higher dimensional" beings are incarnating on earth to help humanity in the dimensional shift that will occur soon. These beings are called star-seeds, light-workers etc. Typical new age exploitation. However, if you're interested in some controversial but interesting so called "channeling" from a philosophical and non-religious perspective I recommend Ra Materials. I think it's worth mentioning one of the authors was a professor of physics at U of Louisville:

http://www.llresearch.org/authors.htm

[ms_collegiality]

Yes, the Ra channeler!  This is exactly who the adjunct was talking about!

[grasshopper]

Always makes me picture cheerleaders: "rah rah rah!"

There you have it, folks: the most enlightened beings in our world are cheerleaders.