Raising a child is the most challenging job most of us will ever have. Each child is different; each parent is different; no size fits all. Soulful Parenting: How to Embrace, Engage, and Encourage Our Children is for anyone who is looking for a broader perspective on helping children weave the threads of their life’s tapestry.

      In our first book, we presented the reader with what many have come to call an Indigo child and the programs that were serving these children at that time. Since then, we have had much experience with both children and adults who are intuitive. Although Indigo is the nom de jour for intuitive people, we no longer like to use the term. It has become identified with personality characteristics, which are not indicative of intuitive abilities at all. We have had parents come to A Place of Light, saying, “My child cannot be an Indigo; he has brown eyes.” Thus, we have come to believe that a child’s name is sufficient enough a label. The practice of labeling children causes growth stagnation and takes away from the feeling of personal power.

      Crystal, Indigo, starseed, rainbow—all of these labels are an attempt to drag the gestalt nature of intuitiveness back into the Western culture’s way of defining and categorizing. Linking with Spirit is something that simply occurs when one leaves oneself open to the possibility. Linking is not something one learns to do in the same way one learns to drive. However, when one is a skilled driver, the techniques flow naturally, just as linking with Spirit does.

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