Hey Spooky....what you have said about how these kids respond in school and flunking out is so true and I have been worrying about this very thing.
After reading the talk here on this topic, I have some things to add. As for myself, I am not trying to establish bragging rights.....not that it has been assumed by anyone. Speaking for my granddaughter, she is very intelligent, far beyond her little years. It is already evident that she is not fitting into kindergarden...the other kids are clearly in their niche...she is not. She is not stimulated or challenged and is getting bored already. But it's not really a matter of needing a challenging program...it's far above that. It's hard to put a finger on it actually....I think if you could imagine, putting her into a group of students who are in their final year of a bachelor degree in the sciences...that is where her challenge level would be....that stuff would interest her. No, I am not saying that she knows that stuff at this time...but that is the level of challenge she needs and that she would be able to understand and tweek her interest. Yes, she is just a child..and needs that child stuff in her life...to play with dolls...play house...swing and play in the dirt......but guess what? She isn't interested in those things. Not by anyone's choice or pushing but by her own...she is instead checking out her dinosaur bones under the microscope. She is learning about the planets, where they are in the solar system....she is really into that stuff...she knows their names, knows all the rings of Saturn....many of them she can tell you what gasses are predominent on each planet......I can't follow her cuz I don't have a clue what she is talking about. She gets alot of her information from shows on tv. That is where her interest is. She knows so much about green house gasses.....what is causing them, what they will do....she is talking all about the weather patterns..
She is clearly on a path that is much different from the norm.....she is seeking something that is far out of my realm of understanding...and it has nothing to do with math or reading. I can't even understand it myself....I just know it's there...I can see it in her eyes, feel it in her heart...it's like I know her soul is yearning to get the job done...whatever that job is. And that is the key phrase: whatever that job is......and I don't even think she knows what it is either. But she sure does have this interest in talking to people at the university and she sure has a thing about the environment......she doesn't get that from her mother and recycling at home either....her mother frequently gets a speaking to about 'what she just did'. (litter bug)
Well.....there is no one telling her that she is special in any other way than other kids...what she is told is that she is very special to us and that we love her more than anything. She is never told that she is gifted or better, different than any other child. We don't push any of this stuff on her...she is doing it to herself, because she has the interest and the desire to learn it and have it in her life.
Lets face it, you can't make a kid want to learn what they don't want to learn.
She was never one of those kids whose mother was pumping love songs or stories at her while she was still in the womb either. .....no, not from my daughter! You know how some mothers/parents are...trying to create a smart and advanced kid....even before birth.
No one tells her that she is gifted...or different in any way. For one thing, I know better than that...I have spent years studying child physcology and worked in the business of childcare education. It is highly detrimental to a child's overall health to try to make them out to be something that they aren't.
My daughter doesn't have a clue about any of these things....all she knows and understands is that her daughter is smart. However I have seen that there is something about MiKayla that goes beyond smarts and I have seen it since the moment that we first looked into each others eyes....when she was only hours old.
MiKayla doesn't need anyone to tell her that she is different is some way...she already knows it...but she doesn't see it as being different...to her, her intelligence, interest and desire is all normal....and what she is continually seeking is only a normal quest in her daily life. It's not different for her. She doesn't see herself as different from other kids her age either....she tolerates them, plays with them...but it isn't enough. She told me just the other day: 'Trinity doesn't talk very well. But that is ok...she will get better at talking. She is still my friend'.
'I am going to help my friends recognize their names on their name cards. They can't read yet'
hmmmmmmmm, I can't see my little shortstop sitting amongst university graduates conversing in an intense scientific discussion...but that is exactly where she would be happy to sit and listen and take part.
She only needs encouragement, acknowledgement of her achievements, TONNES OF LOVE, and an open door of opportunity to grow.
No one needs to tell these kids who they are, what they are....they already are beginning to get a grip on these things themselves...they will confirm this within themselves. They already know that they are in pursuit of something good....many don't know just what it is yet....but they will...just as you or I have come to find our own spirituality.
I think that from day one they already know that they are on a path of complexity and what the content of that is will be a struggle in itself. And once they find what it is that their soul is searching for....or the 'place to be'........bingo...the light is on and then you just watch what they will do! That is the moment of true realization. Look out!
As for 'labels'........I was actually offended by that word. It isn't a label. It's no different than anything else in our vocabulary of understanding 'what is not the same as something else'...........we have ADHD, AUTISTIC. MENTALLY CHALLENGED, GENIOUS, CHRISTIAN, CATHOLIC, PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED, SPECIAL NEEDS, HIGH SOCIETY, LOW INCOME FAMILIES, MILLIONAIRES, CELEBRITIES, RACES, NATIONALITY,........the list goes on and on........referring to a specific group of children coming in as Indigo or Crystal is really no different. It only allows our brain a distinction from other. We need distinction...we can't all be the same. However, we are all the same in that we are human....we feel the same emotions. We have bone and flesh...we are people. We are the same. But we are all different...that is what makes us individual.
Who in their right mind is going to point it out 'here is an Indigo child' any more than they would say, 'here is an Autistic child'? No..everyone is different but yet we are the same.
I don't believe I ever said that she was definitely Indigo.....I believe she may very well be tho....and either way, she is loved just as much. Only the future will show the world for sure...time will tell.
For many of the Indigo/Crystal kids who are now adults and just entering that self discovery......have you read their testimonies on how suddenly feel so much better...like their eyes have been opened and now they are realizing that they have something to do?? They have had these feelings and interests but never had a clue as what to do with them? Now they find the purpose, have found something completely unique and important to do with themselves...and it's a feeling like they have just 'come home'......maybe this delayed reaction is because there wasn't much knowledge/acknowledgement in prior years over these kids.....not understanding why they funked out of school...why they have never fit in....just these feelings of being losers...having done nothing with themselves....so yes Spooky, a school for higher intelligence! A school not to just build on that intelligence, but to aid in a education different from the norm...abstract.
Maybe in 5 years from now we have as many adults just 'getting' it.......now that we have more insight and understanding today. The idea is to help all kids grow, learn and mature into adults. No matter what type of needs the child has. And it's not up to us as to who they will become....that is their discovery to find. As adults, all we can do is offer encouragement, love and opportunity.
I don't know....if this made any sense at all.
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