Would you say that someone could be as old as forty and be an Indigo?

They could be—sure, it’s possible. Just as bees send a hunter bee ahead to check out an area before they all go there, I believe there were forerunners for the Indigo Children, trailblazers.

When did you become introduced to the term ‘’Indigo Children’’?

Well, I was first introduced to the term ‘’Children of the Light.’’ Then, as it got closer to the millennium, we heard the Millennium Children.’’ I first heard the term ‘’Indigo Children popularized when I started to work with Lee Carroll. Through association, he asked me to be a contributing writer for a couple of his books. I contributed to Partnering with God (I think it’s book four, the green Kryon book). Then he asked me to contribute to Indigo Children. Now I’ve been asked to do the follow-up to Indigo Children. The book, The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children came out in the spring of 2001.

So you heard them called Children of the Light and then Millennium Children. Was this through your own personal work or were these phrases coined somewhere else?

Well, I was doing so much research on these children that I would read articles that referred to them. I usually blend mainstream research, the different medical and psychological models, and the esoteric. I’ve always blended those different backgrounds because to me they don’t fight each other or conflict—they converge. So right now, the book I’m writing follows the same route.

I’m really, really focused on alternatives to Ritalin more than anything. I think my particular mission is to create an awareness that you don’t have to have your child on Ritalin, and if your child is diagnosed ADD or ADHD, do not stop there—seek second and third opinions. The educational system that breeds this diagnosis is too overwhelmed right now to provide individualistic care for these disruptive children and instead, almost has a factory-like approach to labeling and drugging them. I’m not putting the system down; I understand they are taxed to the limit, not by money but taxed with time. So they really don’t have the time or the staff to investigate and provide treatment for each child. And parents don’t have the money to afford a personal therapist for their kid. So the poor equivalent is Ritalin.

The Children of the Light are usually the ones who are mislabeled ADD and ADHD. Instead, they are actually highly gifted and creative children. Now I don’t want to put any blame on anyone. These are not the easiest kids to raise, so I’m not pointing a finger of blame at the children’s parents or teachers. What we need instead of blame is a new paradigm, a new model for looking at these kids. I’m even working with an astrologer right now who is looking at separating the children who are fire and air signs, getting them out of the classrooms away from the more placid earth and water signs. So, we’re coming from a lot of different angles on this. We’re definitely looking at supplements such as blue-green algae, which provide a lot of help. Definitely, there is a nutritional aspect. Across the board, one thing we can all agree on, no matter what background we come from, is that these children are hypersensitive. The medical model shows they are hypersensitive physiologically; in tests, they tend to show faster and larger brain-wave reactions to stimuli.

In my personal interviews and dealings with them, these children are naturally street-smart and intuitive. They know when they are being lied to. They are very sensitive to it and don’t put up with lies, as perhaps our generation did. We dissociated from our feelings, in my opinion, as a sociological group. These children either don’t have that ability or refuse to do it. If they feel in their gut that they are being lied to, they honor that feeling, which I think is very healthy. A lot of the acting out is because of the overwhelm they feel from the energy of being lied to and put in situations that don’t make sense to them. They are also hypersensitive to chemicals, especially chemicals in food. We’ve seen a lot of anecdotal incidents where parents will move their children to a more organic type of diet without preservatives and food colorings and without stimulants, such as sugar and caffeine. The child calms way down. I saw this in my own children when I switched them to an organic diet. They softened, as did my husband.