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Newsletter - May 2008
Elayna.org
Educating, Supporting and Celebrating Indigo and Crystal Children (Today's "New Children") and the People Who Love Them
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Is Your Child an Indigo?
Are you?
Click here for a free Indigo Checklist of characteristics to help you decide. |
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Indigo Children by Wendy H. Chapman, Dir., MA Ed. Psy., SRMT, and Carolyn Flynn
Amazon Price $10.88
Highly readable book and jam packed with helpful information. This book is aptly subtitled, An enlightened approach to nurturing an Indigo Child.
Reliable and Useful: The fact that Wendy Chapman is herself an Indigo, and has worked as an elementary school teacher of gifted and talented children, adds to the reliability of the information, its usefulness and its thoroughness. The co-author, Carolyn Flynn is raising two Indigo chldren, so also has lots of sound experience to share.
Famous People the Authors Think Could Be Indigo: The authors include the names of these people and many others in their book including Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir, Olympic speed skater, Apolo Anton Ohno (Elayna note: Ohno also won ABC-TV's Dancing with the Stars championship in 2007.
Other people they say could be Indigo include:  Benjamin Franklin, Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, Rosa Parks, Joan of Arc, Maria Montessori, Leonardo DaVinci, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dali, read more... | |
Why You are Receiving This Newsletter Some of you subscribed on our website to receive our email communications. Others of you did not, but I added your name to the list in the belief that you would be interested. If you do not wish to receive our future periodic email communications, I apologize for bothering you, and invite you to safely unsubscribe by clicking the link at the bottom of this newsletter.
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Message from Elayna
Hello Dear Friends of the New Children,
We invite you to visit the elayna.org site, as we have revised it considerably and added lots of new information. Lately, it has been difficult to keep up with all the new information on the children. So please think of us when you come across some new information and share it with everyone by posting it on the Discussion Board. (It takes only a few minutes to register and confirm your email address.)
Raising the New Kids is uncharted territory for all of us. These children don't usually respond well to parenting in the way that we were raised. So we are all in learning mode and I hope you will share your experiences as Jodi Parker did in her article about her Crystal son's health issues.
I'm always glad to receive your emails too.
In service of the children,
Elayna (Eileen Broer)
Founder and Executive Director of Elayna
303.660.4598
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 Successful Mothering
Our focus was helping parents to understand the special characteristics and parenting needs of their Indigo and Crystal children -- and all of the New Children, regardless of what they are called. (Please click here to read why I think the labels are still needed at this time.) Tara mentioned during the presentation that she does not like being called an Indigo, though she feels that she is one and fits all the characteristics.
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Parenting Tip
Provide Frequent and Daily Counter-Balancing Activities to Your Child's "Screen Life"
P.M.H. Atwater gave me this parenting tip in our correspondence. She is the author of over twenty books, including Beyond the Indigo Children(pictured).
We all know that today's children view the world through all types of screens - video screens, television screens, computer screens, cell phone screens. movie screens, and others.
This means it is now more important than ever for parents to plan in time for "counter-balances."
P.M.H. told me that a child who has good counter-balances, will be able to handle high technology and retain their health. as well as to have healthy relationships. So it is critical to provide these types of activities frequently and daily.
Counter-balances are grounding activities and include outdoor and indoor physical activities, intuitive and imaginary activities, and other activities where the child is engaging with something or someone other than a screen.
Examples of Counter-Balancing Activities
Gardening
Having a pet to care for
Cooking
Baking cookies
Doing dishes - the old-fashioned way
Housework
Going to the gym
Sports of some kind
Dancing
Playing in a band
Vounteering
Hiking
Making things
Being creative
Walking a labyrinth
Washing windows
Washing the car
Walking the dog
Writing a story, being imaginative
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