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BOOKS Reviewed by Ruth Parnell RAISING INTUITIVE CHILDREN by Caron B. Goode, EdD, and Tara Paterson New Page Books, USA, 2009 ISBN 978-1-60163-051-3 (236pp tpb) Available: www.NewPageBooks.com Il children possess intuition, a form of natural intelligence, but how they develop it depends on environment, parental support and education. Enter co-authors and parenting advisers Caron Goode and Tara Paterson, who have compiled this guide to help parents understand children and teenagers and nurture their natural intuitive abilities. With the input of intuitive intelligence, different types of children can develop physical prowess or become creative and inspired, empathic, psychic or spiritually intuitive. Goode and Paterson also look at risk factors from environmental toxicity to food additives and advise on how to counteract adverse impacts on sensitive youngsters. And the more sensitive, the more easily stressed intuitive children can be, which is where exercises on shifting emotional and psychic states come in—a boon to parents. The REVIEWS REVIEWS authors ask: what if we provided our children with the tools to trust their inner guidance? They offer workable answers in their empowering book. opening commentary and introduces each chapter containing contributions from educators, employers, health workers, parents, indigos themselves, and also several professionals from outside North America—relevant considering that the indigo phenomenon is global. Carroll and Tober say that the multi-faceted indigo phenomenon is not to be interpreted in terms of New Age philosophy. These special people, many of whom have psychic talents, should be taken seriously by educators and health professionals. Indigos don't have to be drugged for attention deficit disorder but should be listened to and their higher levels of consciousness and compassion appreciated, for they have the ability to change the world for the better. THE INDIGO CHILDREN: TEN YEARS LATER by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober Hay House, 2009 978-1-4019-2317-4 (286pp tpb) Available: www.hayhouse.com he “indigo children" phenomenon was first observed by sensitive and synesthete Nancy Ann Tappe, who by the late 1970s had noticed a new colour, indigo blue, around children and perceived that a new kind of person was being born on Earth, representing an evolutionary development in humankind. Their numbers grew through the 1990s and beyond, and Tappe has identified 12 indigo types. Her observations became the basis of Lee Carroll and Jan Tober's book The Indigo Children, published in 1999 (reviewed in 7/01). Ten years on, Carroll and Tober have revisited these children, who are now teenagers and young adults, to see how they're progressing. They have also interviewed Tappe, who reveals that some early indigos now have high profiles—Barack Obama and Tiger Woods among them. Carroll provides the extensive The . 7 Indigo Children YEARS LATER Lee Carroll Jan Tober NEXUS ¢ 69 DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com