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Date: 2007-04-07 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tn-lark.livejournal.com
Personally I have always used the term "Indigo child" as a code phrase meaning "I can't control my kids".

Rather than spend time parenting, taking time to set limits and enforce them, teaching proper behaviors, and all of the other things that go into raising a child, it is simpler to let them run wild and say you can't curtail their behavior because they are somehow different or special from any of the children who came in all the millions of generations before them. What is it that is driving this trend. Is it that Moms these days grow up apart from their own Mothers and don't have that parental wisdom to draw on in raising their own kids? Is it because in general these days and both parents work and have less time for the kids?? Is it that parenting no longer is held as being an important career? Are kids just something one is expected to HAVE like the right kind of car or the home in the suburbs?

I have also seen it used a lot in cases where a parent did not want to admit that perhaps their little darling might have ADHD issues because that would mean that they were less than perfect. Of course the one to suffer is the child who misses out on part of his educational needs because he cannot concentrate long enough to master the material.

And the Crystal/Rainbow hype is just more of the "my kid is speshuler than yours".

I think the whole thing is a poison that needs to be stamped on whenever it arises before it becomes any more entrenched in our society.
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