I suppose one could say I was given a slap on the hands by one reader concerning my Indigo child blog.  First let me state this:  If your child needs medical or special help by all means see to it that they recieve all they need.

My daughter is a very bright child and the first few years of school for her were difficult as she is a very strong personality.  She has inherited her father's hard headedness and when something doesn't make sense you can't convince her that it does.  She is curious about the world, she wants to know how everything works: Hence the watches, cd players, etc.. that have been taken apart to see how they worked and if she could put them back together.  No, she could not put them back together and make htem work LOL!

This child is not one that handles being told "Because I said so" when she asks "why".  The extra two seconds it takes to explain to her because the time isn't good right now, or because I don't feel good about this, is all that it takes with her to avoid the frustration for her. 

When my daughter was younger she insisted she saw and talked to the angels; honestly, I took it as a young child's imagination but looking back at certain things I realize I was ignoring a clear sign from my child.  Wewere not church goers by any means and honestly I had enough of organized religion at that point to last me a lifetime, I didn't spend a great deal of time instilling it in my daughter.

My daughter has always been one of those kids who would say things that seemed really out there until the things she said would actually occur, even then I didn't pay attention as I wasn't paying attention to my own gifts, how could I see hers?

It took a teacher who finally realized that my daughter was very bright and very curious to help her settle down in school.  This teacher took the time to answer her students questions and never used phrases like "Because I said so".  She went from the "problem" student to the student that loved school, loved her teacher and began to thrive. 

Today, my daughter is a straight A student, who is well liked by both the teachers and her peers, she is the child that the neighbors trust to babysit their children, pets, etc...  Yes, she still gives me a hard time; I am mom what do you expect from a teenager LOL!  But she is not in trouble, she is not volitile, she is not rude.  She struggles with reading and we have been through every possible test to be told "it might be dyslexia".  Might be?  Excuse me, tell me what I need to do to help her.  So, yes I am looking to see if it is a rare problem with her eyes that Indigo children sometimes suffer from.  I would fly to the moon if it meant helping my child.  When she is sick, yes, I consider alternative treatments but I have a family doctor that knows her tendancy to bronchitis and the minute she starts coughing we are headed for the doctors office.  I do preventative therapy with her and it works fairly well, she was the only child in the neighborhood not to get that awful flu that was going around over the winter, but I don't waste time playing with her health when she is sick, I seek a professional always.

If your child is exhibting signs of trouble in school or day to day life, I encourage you to seek all the answers.  It most certainly could be a physical problem, but it could also be frustration.  If your child is slow to speak, some kids don't talk as soon as others but when they do it is clearly not a problem, some there are early signs of other issues.  Always apply your common sense, as parents we often know by instinct when something is wrong with our child and not actiing on that is not a good thing.  I am simply asking you to look at all angles before jumping to conclusions and putting your child on medications that have some pretty severe side effects and some studies are showing these medications can do more harm to those who don't need them than we were aware of in the past.