Conscious Parenting and The Indigo Child

By Julia Griffin

Julia: Why is it necessary for parents to take parenting classes?

Patricia: Often, we have simply stepped into parenthood, hoping for the best while striving to do our very best at all times and often against tremendous odds. It's just that, too often, our best is simply not enough to prevent the unhealthy patterns we have inherited. The times and children have changed. The tactics our parents used simply don't work anymore.

Divorce, two career couples, and single parents have made parenting a greater challenge. Recent evidence and personal experience suggests that we are raising a different sort of child, often called Indigo children. These differences are rooted not only in the individual, but also closely tied to cultural and social change as well as the subtle shifts of consciousness underway around the world. This calls for an entirely different way of parenting.

Julia: Please tell me more about the Indigo children.

Patricia: Indigo children are natural empaths who are hypersensitive to feelings and thoughts. They “see” your holographic pictures – one of their special gifts is their thinking in pictures. It's also how they learn. They need to be understood.

Life is very confusing because of all of the thoughts and feelings they pick up. They do not know how do deal with them. They can see the unhealthy acts in the world and can't make sense of it. They feel very different from everyone else and yet they are more alike than they know. What's difficult for parents is that we have an old paradigm for how children should behave, what they should do and it doesn't fit with the new Indigo child.

Indigo children often exhibit behavior considered to be unacceptable in our old paradigm. Their behavior breaks down our forms and systems that do not work, but the children are commonly labeled with disorders such as ADD, ADHD, or other disruptive behaviors. This is confusing and painful for them. Indigos want us to understand why they are here and recognize their gifts so that they can fulfill their purpose by helping the planet to make the shift to higher consciousness. That's why conscious parenting is so important today.

Julia: How can conscious parenting help?

Patricia: We as parents and adults have to expand our vision of what they see children should be. Indigo children are a great gift to the planet, but it is not an easy life for either the parent or child. If we could protect them from all of the world's unhappiness, it would be better for them, but that's not why they are here. They are here to effect change.

We, the parents, have to accept and acknowledge them for the incredible beings that they are. We also have to admit that we have created a negative world image and become creative enough to imagine a better world. It's what most of our current spiritual teachings teach us. These children are showing us every day.

These children think in pictures and in holographs, and they see all the pictures we as parents make about them. If we see them misbehaving, then they see that picture, repeat it and bring it into reality. Indigos are masters of manifestation. As parents, we need to look at what we think, feel, and picture about our children. Do we create holograms of the kind of behavior and life we want for our children, or make holograms of negative thoughts?

Our focus and attention needs to be redirected to what we want. We want our children to feel accepted and understood.

Julia: What would you say is the most important message of this course?

Patricia: Parents today have been given a tremendous gift in their Indigo child. My course provides parents with understanding and insight into their child, as well as practical parenting skills grounded in love, respect, cooperation and tolerance. The Indigo children are bursting our old parenting paradigm so that we can learn these lessons for the planet. Parents will learn to resolve conflicts through negotiation and cooperation, replace negative messages with positive messages and assist children in becoming self-sufficient, responsible and self-confident.

Julia: Are there any other steps that you recommend?

Patricia: Focusing on our own spiritual growth and behavior is the most important step we can take for our child. We must take time to meditate, exercise and care for ourselves. We have to nurture ourselves as well as our children.

Certainly, one of our most important life purposes is to parent an Indigo child. We've been given a great gift and a great teacher in our child. They give us the universal “kick in the pants” that is sometimes needed to wake us up to our divinity.

The parent must evolve spiritually in order to meet these new children. That's what they're asking for, that's what they are here to do. Conscious Parenting teaches practical parenting skills by helping parents discover how their own spiritual development can create a more harmonious family life.

Patricia Bailey is a certified parent educator who facilitates courses in Conscious Parenting. She brings her eight years experience in Waldorf education as a parent, school administrator and faculty advisor and her personal experience parenting a 15-year-old Indigo child. For more information about her parenting classes, contact her at consciousparent@ bellsouth.net or 678.570.1054