Time .................................................................................................................. 1
Essential Life Skills ........................................................................................ 4

Respect
The New Teacher ......................................................................................... 9
The Self Aware Parent & Schooling ..................................................... 11
Indigos – Evolution of the Gifted Child ................................................ 19
Kiah’s First Recipe ..................................................................................... 28
Respect: The Steps of Compassion ......................................................... 29

Undivided Attention
This Child Came to Me for a Reason .................................................... 35
When ADD Doesn’t Add Up by Damian Nordmann ...................... 37
Establishing Order in an Individual’s Universe .................................. 41
Attention by Dr. Pam Blosser ................................................................ 50
The Garden by Dr. Sheila Benjamin ..................................................... 53

Concentration
The Girl at the Health Food Store ........................................................ 56
The Hyperactive Mom climbs out of the Box ................................... 60
A Primer for Optimum Learning Ability ............................................ 64
The Three Fishermen of Windyville ..................................................... 70

Memory
The Body Changers .................................................................................. 73
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? ............................................................. 76
Metamorphosis ........................................................................................... 78
Hungry all the Time .................................................................................. 83
Multiple Intelligences ................................................................................. 86
A Different Kind of Memory .................................................................. 98

Listening
Turning Your Life Upside Down ......................................................... 105
Becoming Collectively Conscious
an interview with Will Glennon ............................................................ 109
The Magic House ..................................................................................... 117
Brain Food: Listening to Your Body .................................................. 121

Imagination
The Apple by Dr. Laurel Clark ............................................................ 126
Boys and Girls by Dr. Laurel Clark .................................................... 129
A Tool for Change .................................................................................. 130
Make Believe ............................................................................................ 135
Erin ............................................................................................................. 136
Iris ............................................................................................................... 137
Briana ......................................................................................................... 139
The Tortoise Shell ................................................................................... 143

Breath
Self Acceptance by Dr. Laurel Clark .................................................. 149
Emotions .................................................................................................... 151
The Inner Teacher Awakens:
Hezekiah Condron & the Vinegar Volcano Mess
by Adam Campbell ................................................................................. 152
Holding Your Breath .............................................................................. 154
9-11-01 A Child’s Perspective ............................................................. 157
“I didn’t even Breathe!” ....................................................................... 163
A Collective Sigh
Meeting the Educational Needs of the Indigo .................................. 166

Reasoning
Gratitude: Prerequisite for Reasoning ................................................ 173
Beyond Your Own Limits:
Getting out of the Child’s Way by Dr. Pam Blosser ..................... 179
The Little Red Schoolhouse Turns Indigo ....................................... 182
Lessons I Learned from a Six Year Old
by Shawn Stoner ................................................................................... 188
The Sapling ............................................................................................. 193
Self Initiated Learning by Dr. Pam Blosser .................................... 196
Choices by Shawn Stoner ................................................................... 197

Intuition
What is a Family? .................................................................................. 200
Creating a Spiritual Focus for Your Family .................................... 203
The Soul You Call Your Child ............................................................ 203
Getting Inside Your Child’s Head ...................................................... 208
Conscious Parenting .............................................................................. 211
For Briana on Her Eleventh Birthday .............................................. 215
Birds of a Feather .................................................................................. 216

Entrainment
Iris’s Weird Dream ................................................................................ 222
What do Indigos Dream? ..................................................................... 226
We are Linked by our Dreams ........................................................... 232
When a Parent Dreams about her Child .......................................... 232
A Child’s Empathy for His Parent ................................................... 235
Drawing on your Dreams for Conscious Parenting ..................... 236

The Golden Rule
Seven Things I’ve Learned in the First Seven Years .................. 246
Respecting the Teacher in your Midst ............................................. 255
Resources We Recommend ................................................................ 256