Rick Martin, ''The New Kids Have Arrived! An Interview with Jan Tober,'' The Spectrum Newspaper, 5.
Tom DeWeese, ''Special Report: Education,'' World Newsstand, 1999. http://www.hotyellow98.com
Keith R. Smith, ''Chronic Reversed Polarity in Today’s Special Children,'' in The Indigo Children, Lee Carroll and Jan Tober (California: Hay House, Inc., 1999), 168-169.
Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Talking Back to Ritalin (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1998), chapter 12.
Lawrence H. Diller, M.D., Running on Ritalin (New York: Bantam Books, 1998), 27. You can find a brief but detailed history of the emergence of Ritalin on the pharmaceutical scene in Diller’s chapter 2, ''Stimulant of Choice: The Myths and Reality of Ritalin.''
DeWeese, ''Special Report: Education.'' See also William J. Bailey, M.P.H., C.P.P., ''Factline on Non-Medical Use of Ritalin (methylphenidate),'' Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University, 1995. http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/publications/iprc/factline/ritalin.html
DEA Press Release, ''Methylphenidate,'' 20 October 1995.
''Ritalin: Violence Against Boys,'' Massachusetts News, 1 November 1999. http://www.massnews.com/vioboy.htm
Nancy Gibbs, ''The Age of Ritalin,'' Time, 30 November 1998, 86. According to an even more recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, psychotrophic medications prescribed for preschoolers (aged 2-4 years) dramatically increased between 1991 and 1995. See ''Trends in the Prescribing of Psychotropic Medications to Preschoolers,'' Journal of the American Medical Association 283, 8 (23 February 2000): 1025-1030.
Bailey, ''Factline.''
''Psychiatrist Discloses Ritalin’s Hidden Dangers to Children,'' News Release from Peter R. Breggin, M.D. http://www.breggin.com/Ritalinprnews.html
Breggin, Talking Back to Ritalin, chapter 3
Gibbs, ''The Age of Ritalin,'' 86.
''Ritalin: Violence Against Boys''; DeWeese, ''Special Report: Education.''
Massachusetts News
DeWeese, ''Special Report: Education.''
Richard DeGrandpre, Ritalin Nation (NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999).
Carroll and Tober, The Indigo Children, 191-192. This approach is also discussed in William Sears, M.D., and Lynda Thompson, Ph.D., The A.D.D. Book (NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), chapter 8.
Please see Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D., M.S.W., and Robert Ullman, N.D., Ritalin Free Kids: Safe and Effective Homeopathic Medicine for ADD and Other Behavioral and Learning Problems (Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1996).
These approaches are all discussed by various authors in Carroll and Tober, The Indigo Children, chapter 4.
Carroll and Tober, The Indigo Children, 188; Karen Eck, ''A Nutritional Answer,'' in The Indigo Children, Carroll and Tober, 179-184; ''Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD . . . Scientifically Safe and Natural Non-Drug Alternative.'' www.healthysource.com/add.html
Two such books are Ben F. Geingold, M.D. and Helene S. Feingold, The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children (NY: Random House, 1979) and Rachel Bell and Howard Peiper, M.D., The A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. Diet! (CT: Safe Goods Publishing, 1997).
Breggin, Talking Back to Ritalin, 212.
A current list of recommended schools for Indigo Children is offered on the Indigo Children website
Martin, ''The New Kids Have Arrived!'' 7.
A detailed explanation of parenting guidelines can be found in Carroll and Tober, The Indigo Children.