Children who are being born today are radically different from those born as the parents of their parents, but the same rules that applied to child-rearing twenty years ago still apply today. Actually, they are more important today than ever before, because this new “breed” of child, the crystal or rainbow child, implies and requires additional care on the part of the parent.

These new children are genetically different and are the beginning of a new human species. They have very special gifts. They use their minds to do so much more than we ever considered: moving objects, reading the minds of others, even seeing things that are invisible to their parents and grandparents…angels, perhaps? They can also magnify any energy they feel. What is foreign to them is fear. They are beings of pure love. They are extremely sensitive to environmental toxins, creating “dis-ease” that stumps their medical doctors. Many are mis-diagnosed as being on the autism or asbergers spectrum.

Any child believes that everything received by his or her senses is the truth. This continues up until about age five, when the ability to discriminate kicks in. This has always been true, but it is so much more important for the parents of the today’s children to be judicious in guarding what their children are allowed to receive, because not only do these kids receive with the five traditional senses, but they receive telepathically as well.

Every child comes into this world as a clean slate and begins to develop his or her idea of what this world is based on sensation. Out of parental fear that harm might come to the child, we begin to limit those sensations early on with “no”. It’s one of the first words this child learns! And, it begins the process of teaching that it’s “not okay” for the child to just be. With these new kids, we don’t even have to say the word to instill it!

Here’s an example: the toddler runs up to her daddy when he comes home from work and joyfully begins showing him toys, chattering in baby talk. He’s had a rough day at the office and is exhausted, pushes her away and yells at his wife, “Will you please come take this child so I can have some peace and quiet?” The child senses rejection and does not feel loved. The lesson might be, “it’s not ok to share and talk with my daddy.” Of course, this is not what he had in mind, and probably never even occurred to him, but it’s a lesson nonetheless. Much of the trauma I find in my InnerSpeak therapy work stems from seemingly insignificant instances such as this!

Since fear is not part of the make-up of these children, when they encounter it, they magnify it and send it back in the direction from which it came. This will propose an interesting phenomenon for their parents! If we look at fear as any emotion that is not love, dealing with an upset child, who then increases the upset of the parent will make calming and correcting the situation much more difficult. Finding behavior modification tools for the indigos/crystals will be a bit challenging, because the old methods just won’t work. If the child is able to “plug” the parent into their energy, or vice versa, negativity will increase. The only tools that will prove successful will be those based on love and positive feedback. Whatever the situation that arises will need to be handled in a manner that leads to a “yes” rather than a “no”.

Some of the indigos/crystals will be late talkers. They, however, can communicate telepathically, so the need to talk is not as strong as it has been for children in the past. We must resist the temptation to label or medicate them, and let them develop at their own pace. Trust your own intuition that you are receiving the information your child wants you to “hear” and resist the temptation to make him/her wrong in any way because of this different method of communicating.

These children of the new energy are extremely inquisitive. Feed that enthusiasm with more questions for them, rather than limiting their field. These children will KNOW what is true and what is not. Bribing and lying to them will not work, because they will instinctively know what is in your mind. We are moving into a time where there can be no more lies. These kids are coming in now to take us to a more loving world. Who could ask for a better plan? It is the duty of each parent, then, to support the child with creative and loving environments for their individual development.