Disciplining the Indigo Children
Robert Gerard offers advice on how to properly discipline the Indigo children based on what he calls “loving discipline” (Gerard 1999). Loving discipline consists of informing the child of the purpose and course of discipline using simple explanations, avoiding reactions, orders, and verbal and physical abuse, following through with your punishment, using a time-out procedure, dealing with discipline in the moment—not delaying punishment—and discussing the situation when it is over.
Cathy Patterson (1999) gives advice on setting boundaries and guidelines to help raise an Indigo children. These guidelines include giving the child choices, using brief explanations, giving only one direction at a time, using time-outs for discipline, using a chart to track positive behaviors with stickers, and setting a regular and consistent routine.
In considering the disciplinary strategies advised by Patterson and Gerard, it appears that their advice is the same offered by one of the behavioral pioneers in psychology, Montrose M. Wolf. Wolf, responsible for the creation of time-out, developed these and similar recommendations in the early 1960s (Risley 2005), roughly forty years before Patterson and Gerard offered their pearls of wisdom. Is it amazing that these techniques have been around and working pre-Indigo? If the Indigo children are different from non-Indigos and require special instructions on discipline, then why are the disciplinary suggestions the same as those applied to “normal” children? These “special” recommendations on disciplining Indigo children are not unique to this population; they are universal and highly researched in the psychological community.
Indigo children: the indigo-body.
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The new rules described here are vital for Indigo children, however, these are just the good ones for any child. Without it the Indigo children (I call them BrightLight Babies and Kids) will be ill. The other children will be "just" plain unhappy. That is why these rules are known for long time. So every child should be raised happily, however, the new ones protest different ways if not.
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