With all the stories about what the schools are doing with our kids, here’s one on kids themselves. Or it’s on crackpots. Kids with ADHD, spoiled brats created by their parents or mystical something or others. You decide.

Believers say Indigo children have come to save us

Dina Melendez was taken aback when her 4-year-old started talking about his past lives, describing brothers, sisters, two dogs and a cat.

“And then he told me he died when he was 6 and that he waited before being born again – waited for me so I could be his mommy,” Melendez recalls.

But it’s what Matthew says about the future that really rattles this young mother, and leads her to conclude that he is one of the so-called Indigo children – believed to be a new generation of high-energy, sometimes difficult youngsters who have psychic abilities and a deep-blue aura.

Carroll and Tober define Indigos as “restless, fearless” individuals who “believe in themselves … have difficulty with absolute authority,” and “often see better ways of doing things, at home and in school.” They are in every country, on every continent, the authors say, and only a clairvoyant can see their auras.

Carroll and Tober recommend that Indigo children attend private schools that focus on individual needs, such as Montessori or Waldorf schools.

But educator Paula Moraine, faculty director at the Kimberton Waldorf School, says she’s not sure there is such a thing as an Indigo. It is just as likely, she says, that parents are raising their children with more freedom of expression – certainly with more permissiveness.

Carroll and Tober’s descriptors, she says, are “so vague that they encompass being human.”

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