Is Your Child an Indigo?

Task 1. Read and translate this text.

To find out, ask yourself these questions:

1. Did your child come into the world acting like royalty?

2. Does your child have a feeling of deserving to be here?

3. Does your child have an obvious sense of self?

4. Does your child have difficulty with discipline and authority?

5. Does your child refuse to do certain things they are told to do?

6. Is waiting in lines torture for your child?

7. Is your child frustrated by ritual-oriented systems that require little creativity?

8. Does your child see better ways of doing thing at home and at school?

9. Is your child a nonconformist?

10. Does your child refuse to respond to guilt trips?

11. Does your child get bored rather easily with assigned tasks?

12. Does your child display symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder?

13. Is your child particularly creative?

14. Does your child display intuition?

15. Does your child have strong empathy for others?

16. Did your child develop abstract thinking very early?

17. Is your child very intelligent?

18. Is your child very talented (may be identified as gifted)?

19. Does your child seem be a daydreamer?

20. Does your child have very old, deep, wise looking eyes?

21. Does your child have spiritual intelligence?

If you have more than 10 yes answers, he or she probably is an Indigo. If more than 15 almost definitely.

Task 2. Give the Russian verse of this test.

Text 5 Top 10 Tips for Teaching Indigos

by Wendy H. Chapman

Task 1. Read and translate this text.

1. Treat them with respect

If you do not show it for them, they won't give it to you despite your position of authority.

2. Listen to their opinions

They need to know you care and recognize them as people of value.

3. Empower them

Give them choices such as what type of product to create to demonstrate learning, what order they do the work in, perhaps between two activities (as a class decision). Having a voice that makes a difference will do wonders for their self-esteem, will usually encourage them to participate in the choice they have made, and consequently will improve their attitude towards you and towards education.

4. Solicit cooperation and avoid giving orders

Indigos do not respond (at all or not positively) to those who attempt to control them. They will respond to those who treat them fairly and kindly.

5. Help them do things that make a difference

If they are frustrated with the way something is - from homework in the school to homelessness in the world, encourage them to do something positive to change it. Like writing letters to the school board or the paper, creating poetry about it, making posters, t-shirts, and organizing a school or community group to focus on the issue and work to change it.

6. Help them discover and develop their talents and strengths.

Encourage their creativity and unique personal expression.

7. Be tolerant of their extreme emotions

Help them balance by using aromatherapy, allow them to drink water in the classroom, quiet moments or visualization practice

8. Encourage students to be peacemakers for each other

Indigos are here to be peacemakers for the world. Let them practice now. This helps develop communication and compassion. Be a guide in this process.

9. Explain WHY about everything

Why certain rules exist, why they need homework (Do they really if they already understand the concept?), why the world has to be the way it is. If you don't have an answer, acknowledge their frustration and show empathy.

10. Discourage medicating for ADD

Often it is not ADD, but Indigo nature creating selective attention. If they can focus on a topic of their own choosing for long periods of time, it's probably Indigo, not ADD. Even if there is a problem with attention and distractibility, there are alternative methods of therapy that do not suppress the natural creativity and leadership of Indigos. Encourage organizational aids.

I can already hear some of you saying, "Aren't these good ideas for teachers to use with all children?" and my answer is an unqualified, "Yes! Absolutely!" The point is that an Indigo Child will suffer tremendously and often tragically if they are not treated with respect and fairness, as unique individuals with great things to offer the world. They will rebel. They will start to hate school. They will drop out emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and sometimes physically as well. They may turn to drugs or develop existential depression and become suicidal or violent. Did you know that all the perpetrators of school shootings have been Indigos? This is according to Nancy Ann Tappe, who first observed and documented the Indigo phenomenon. Wouldn't you like to help prevent school violence?

When the children come to your classroom, they may already be so angry with the way they have been treated by the educational system thus far that they may be difficult to work with. They may come with the "don't mess with me" attitude because - guess what? They HAVE been messed with and they don't like it. You need to show them you are different and you are ready for them and willing to work WITH them. When they see this and know it to be true, they will respond.

Task 2. Translate the following words into Russian. Make up your own sentences using these words:

To treat, self-esteem, consequently, to solicit cooperation, to attempt, to be frustrated, to be tolerant, distractibility.

Task 3. Translate only 10 tips for teaching Indigos in writing.