I read about Indigo Child baout 4 years ago, and my first impression was “wow, are they coming from other planets?”. Indigo Child was defined as “A group of children possessing special traits; beliefs about the traits vary from paranormal abilities (i.e. ESP
) to simply being more confident and sensitive.” by Wikipedia. And some others even define them as ‘children of the sun’, millenium children’, ‘the next step in our evolution as human species’, etc. Indigo is a colour between red and blue, meaning that they are dominant in both colors, make them spritually open.
It is a lot of things to say when talking about Indigo Child, but in a nutshell, they: have sixth sense, have extraordinary abilities as compared t their same age peers, are very creative, don’t like to follow rules and order, usually identified as ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD (Attention Defisit and Hyperactive Disorder), have phsycis ability, etc. When they grow up, they’ll become someone who can change the world, leaders, inventors, innovators and so on.
If you ever see a child who is very-very hyperactive and ‘naughty’, yet very clever and creative, could he be an Indigo Child? And somebody with ‘perangai & pemikiran pelik’ is actually an Indigo adult?
To me personally, I don’t like this. Even if many people say that Indigo Children is not a myth because The West is doing researches and studies on them and it is proven, but for an end user like me, we tend to accept the dead end solution, e.g. Is my child an indigo? or is my child a genius? So, what happen if mine is just doesn’t?
There might be some children with such charateristics and they’re really smart and wit but as all of us are unique, I’d like to accept those as “their uniqueness” rather than calling them by ‘geniuses’, ‘indigos’,’ high IQs’, etc. Putting label on them just like when we were put into classes according to our exam result when we were at school. Of course there’s lots difference on the attention given to the students in A class and E class.
For some school, they’ll give more attention to the E class students so that they can excel or at least upgrade to at least D or C. But in some other schools they rather pay full attention to the A class and let the E class be E class forever.
Furthermore, labeling makes the negative-labeled one have feeling of ‘something wrong with me’.
Just imagine if your friend’s is called genius by the characteristic he shown according to the study but your child is not, example, a ‘study’ said that a heavily morning sickness pregnant mother is carrying a high IQ baby. But how about mothers who have no morning sickness at all? Low IQ babies?
A child born as a white cloth. All children have the same opportunity and choices to excel and success in life (including children like Fahry and his miracle friends), and its depend on the parents on how to ‘color’ their life so that they could be somebody someday. All children are geniuses after all.
Except if I’m in the group of researchers, I might agree with the theory 😀
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