Indigo dad scarecrow. "Special Children" Opinion of a psychologist Vladimir Nikolaevich Pugach. Indeed, what to do

Vladimir Nikolayevich, who are indigo children from the point of view of psychologists?

Like many psychologists, I do not like the term "indigo" because indigo is the color of the aura, which, according to statistics, only 4% of people see, of which 99% are women. Only amateurs argue about whether there is an aura or not - in reference books on optical physics this is called the "Kirlian effect". The color of the aura, perhaps, reflects the essence of the personality at a certain moment. But since 96% of psychologists and mothers do not see the aura, the concept of "indigo" often becomes a speculative label. In medical and psychological classifications, there is not even the word "indigo children." And what's going on? Now conferences are being held where ladies with burning eyes talk about spirituality and retell the book "Indigo Children" without adding anything new. And mothers ask me: “What exactly should I do?”

Indeed, what to do?

You need to go on the Internet and in any search program type combinations of the words: "indigo children" or "ADHD / ADHD" (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder/hyperactivity disorder) and "psychology". Then see if there are psychologists or centers in your city (they have already appeared) that deal with attention problems. I advise you to go to the centers, because, well, you have photographed the child's aura, then what? And in the center, a specialist will provide him and you with real help.

So indigo children are a psychological or medical phenomenon?

First, approximately 80% of indigo children have attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity, ADHD for short. Their intelligence level (IQ) is 160-170 points ( normal level intelligence 90-110. - O. S.). Secondly, those who use the term "indigo children" tend to take into account the spiritual component as well.

Thus, indigo children are both medical and psychological, and pedagogical problem.

By saying that indigo children are a pedagogical problem, did you mean the imperfection of our education system?

Rather, its most serious crisis. The fact is that today in elementary school in each class there are three to five (!), And sometimes more hyperactive children. It is almost impossible to conduct a lesson according to the old pedagogical models. One climbs onto the windowsill, the other under the desk, the third hit the neighbor on the head with a textbook, the fourth got up and walked silently out of the classroom. "Where are you going?" - "To the toilet." Teachers today work at the limit of their abilities. And when there are 10-15 such children in the class, educational process stops. Many years ago we predicted that from 2006 mass layoffs of teachers from schools would begin. And this is not a futuristic forecast. All Western countries have gone through the same. And the Russian Ministry of Education, of course, should know about it.

And what exactly have other countries gone through?

In the US, this problem is 23 years old. IN Western Europe- 11–12 years old. And we only have three or four. Mass layoffs of teachers began there first. They immediately raised their salaries. It helped for a couple of years. Then another collapse, the teachers began to quit again. They raised their wages again. Only then did they begin to figure out what was the matter, they changed learning programs, pedagogical approaches and concepts. In elementary school, a second teacher appeared in each class. Richer countries have reduced the number of students in the classroom.

How are these children different from the rest?

Indigo children are special children. Their brains mature more slowly. They are more infantile. According to the metric, for example, a child is eight years old, and he behaves like a six-year-old. They are more likely to experience nervous exhaustion from school overload. And the reasons can be different: from the unfavorable course of pregnancy and childbirth to information overload under the influence of TV, computer, etc. And those school loads that children used to endure today turn out to be too great, simply unbearable.

Indigo children have high self-esteem and self-esteem - this is what teachers think (maybe this is the norm). It is useless to shout at them, they begin to be harmful - they try to protect their dignity. And if they can’t, then they close up and worry very deeply that they are not understood.

A lot of letters come to me, in each the words are repeated: “They don’t understand me, a strange world, I’m lonely (lonely).” There is such pain in the letters of children from 13 to 19 years old that they cannot be read calmly.

They are not understood by others, and they begin to look for each other. They create forums, communicate on them, exchange experiences, by the end of 2007 there will be a lot of such fundamentally new communities, without membership fees, without demonstrations. Now an invisible community is rapidly forming, which adults have no idea about.

What unites these children?

They do not have a linear perception of the world, but a three-dimensional one. Our pedagogy is logical, and they have systemic thinking. They are almost 100% ambidexterous (ambidexterity is the same development of the functions of both hemispheres of the brain. - O.S.). A few years ago, to the surprise of psychologists, more and more left-handed children and children with the so-called hidden left-handedness began to appear. It was a transitional period. And now there are ambidexters, they are two-handed, both right-handed and left-handed. But most are accustomed to holding everything in their right hand. Children who have both hemispheres of the brain working are already a social factor. These children can think of two problems at once. They have a more flexible mindset. When they become adults, they will be smarter than us.

Do they have unusual abilities?

Eat. They read the minds of their parents. Moms tell me stories like this: “I clean the big room, look at the phone and think: “I need to call Zoya.” And the daughter from another room: “Mom, why do you want to call Aunt Zoya?” And almost all parents, when asked about this, confirm that their children have such abilities. Or another example: “In the kitchen, I wash the dishes, and the child screams from the hallway: “Mom, I went for a walk.” I think: "Probably went without a hat again." And he: “Mom, don’t worry, I put my hat in my pocket, I’ll put it on if it’s cold.”

They perfectly understand whether a person is lying or telling the truth. And there are very funny situations (this is all from my practice, not from books and not from the stories of colleagues). Mom says with a laugh: “Yesterday my two and a half years old was playing with a typewriter. At this time, one politician is speaking on TV. I hear the child say to himself under his breath: "Uncle says this and that. But in reality he thinks this and that." And then the political terms went on!” When these children grow up, they will definitely not vote for such politicians. This also explains some conflicts with, to put it mildly, not very sincere teachers who say one thing and think another. They are still naive in elementary school and say what they think: “You are lying!” What is further fate such a child? The teacher can turn the class against him or, humiliating him, bringing him to tears, will try to break him.

And if there are a lot of children with such abilities, then it seems that modern politics, advertising, education, modern intelligence will collapse in the near future.

And if you imagine that years will pass 5-10, they will take posts everywhere, what will happen then?

There are forerunners of indigo - people who occupy an intermediate phase between us, ordinary people, and new ones - "indigo". For some reason, no one notices.

Look, young people, girls and boys aged 22-29, have now occupied the entire middle management. Old people, from 50 and above, were forced out. There are almost none. The units are working. Moreover, these young people who came to business, politics, government agencies, banks, journalism, do not weave intrigues and do not play behind-the-scenes games. It's just that they work in such a way that they are promoted, promoted to leaders. Moreover, this does not depend on the level of their education - one incomplete or two or three higher. Education does not play a role. They instantly grasp the essence of the matter, very quickly adapt to the professional environment and begin to move up the corporate ladder. So in the near future there will be no revolution in our society. Including in the education system. Young teachers will come and the old ones will simply have to leave.

Is it possible to argue that indigo children are a stage of evolution, what we will all come to?

I am sure that if there are so many children who are at least twice as smart as us, this is not accidental and is necessary for something.

I would like to sum up our conversation...

Our conversation today was built on the principle of a black box: we did not understand what was happening in the child's psyche and why it was happening. We talked about the external, social problems of new children, and what lies behind them is a topic for a separate discussion.

Questions were asked by Olga Sizova, candidate psychological sciences

to the magazine "Man Without Borders"

Indigo children are my passion. As they say, "in my free time" and I have the right to my vision of the world. Another thing is mine professional activity. In 1997, we decided to investigate the then fashionable phenomenon - "indigo children" in order to reasoned and based on scientific research"sneezing" is a misconception. It turned out that "indigo children" is a spiritual term that has nothing to do with psychology.

But in the field of psychophysiology, this group of children coincided by 98% with children with impaired attention due to slower brain maturation ...

An evolutionary leap has taken place before our very eyes!

It turned out that new children have a more perfect, and fundamentally different brain, but a slower maturing brain, outwardly diagnosed by doctors and psychologists as MMD or "attention deficit disorder" (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

ADD/ADHD is not a disease, it is temporary immaturity of a more Perfect Brain. It is clear that it takes more time to mature ...

And a real understanding of the problems of brain maturation of new children has finally allowed the development of effective technologies for providing assistance. .

There are more than 98% of such children born after 2000. And ultimately, not only new children will have to adapt to the new realities of life in Russia, but you and I will have to really adapt to our new, unusual, wonderful children.

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In the recent past, several similar cases have occurred in the US and Europe: children shot their classmates and teachers. They claim that they are all indigo. Wednesday did not accept them, and they took revenge.

Our world is changing before our eyes: the Earth's magnetic grid has shifted by several degrees, the Gulf Stream is slowing down, the ice of Antarctica is rapidly melting. Information saturation in the noosphere is so huge that it affects a person even in the womb, and therefore, being born into the world, he has not only physical, but also intellectual reflexes. Sometimes a child has information that is completely inappropriate for his age.

For the first time the term "indigo children" was used in 1982. The American clairvoyant and psychologist Nancy Ann Tapp was not afraid to publicly declare that many problem children with whom she communicated on duty had an aura of a completely uncharacteristic color for people - dark purple. Basically, the aura of an adult is dominated by green and red colors, while in children it usually has a yellow-golden hue. Her discovery gave rise to a hypothesis about the appearance of unusual children and to some extent explained the numerous complaints of parents about the antisocial behavior of their offspring.

In Russia, the indigo boom began much later, after the appearance in the mid-1990s. books by American psychologists Lee Carroll and Jan Tober "Indigo Children". At this time, one after another, children began to appear in our house, as if descended from the pages of a book. Many have been diagnosed with what doctors call Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The aura of most of them shimmered with a blue-violet scale. Parents and psychologists noticed that the "others" were distinguished by high spirituality and a large stock of knowledge about the world, taken from nowhere.

One of the leading experts in Russia on the study of "violet" - Vladimir Pugach, Ph.D. medical sciences, author of several dozen publications on medicine, pedagogy, psychology. He has worked with children diagnosed with ADHD for many years. “By and large, the phenomenon of indigo has nothing to do with medical psychology.

The fact is that such children have no pronounced manual asymmetry from birth. If we use the image of a biocomputer as a metaphor, then we can say that left-handers and right-handers have different operating systems installed, for example, Windows or Linux, while indigo has both. In a word, according to the principle of the brain, they are both “right-handed” and “left-handed”. Thus, it is possible to explain the specific problems that arise during the period of intensive brain development - from 5 to 14 years. Due to the immaturity of interhemispheric relationships, the switching of “operating systems” occurs spontaneously, which leads to difficulties, in particular, in communication.”

Recently, the second book by Carroll and Tober, Indigo People, was published, which reflects the reverse side of the coin. It tells about the fate of those who were monitored for 25 years. Having matured, the indigos showed themselves as inveterate egoists who did not give a damn about society. Being already men and women, they were driven by sober calculation and cruelty, they were distinguished by a complete lack of warm feelings for others. Most of them died, disappeared or ended up in prisons. The book describes a wild case when a brother and sister developed beyond their years, who entered into incest and were seen by their mother during love games, brutally killed her. Now they are winding their time in prison and at the same time they do not regret what happened at all.

Indigo they do not doubt their own importance, they are smart beyond their years, they have incredible intuition (it is useless for them (to lie), and they prefer creativity and freedom to rules, discipline and authorities. Esotericists believe in the special mission of indigo on Earth. Skeptics explain the strangeness of such a child with poor ecology and heavy pregnancy of the mother, but both of them agree on one thing: the upbringing of the indigo is comparable to the victory over fascism.

Among those who are now over 50 years old, indigos were rare: one in 600 thousand people. Among those over 30 - one in 10 thousand. Among current school graduates - by some estimates, already 12%.

PERFECT IMMUNE

In the early 1990s a baby was born in the USA, both of whose parents were sick with AIDS. Analyzes showed that the child had inherited a terrible disease from them, but at the age of six, during a routine examination, no immunodeficiency virus was found in his blood. The DNA analysis of the child was carried out, and it turned out that his code is not typical for ordinary person. Normal DNA contains 64 codons, of which only 20 are constantly “on”, the rest are inert. The boy had 24 in an active state, which probably helped him cope with the disease. Should I add that his aura is purple?

If you approach the issue of raising such a child correctly, an extraordinary personality can really grow out of him - a wonderful doctor or teacher, a shrewd lawyer, a businessman with an incredible commercial sense, an outstanding actor or architect, whose creations will amaze with unusual, but organic forms.

Today in Russia there are a number of scientific institutes where you can definitely find out if a child belongs to this caste. One of them is the Institute of Higher nervous activity and neurophysiology RAS. The electroencephalogram of indigo shows symmetrical maps of the development of both cerebral hemispheres. This means that in such children, emotions and logic work synchronously, and this is precisely what creates ideal conditions for creativity.

Unfortunately, in our country there are almost no special schools and kindergartens for miracle children. In Moscow, the first meeting on indigo took place only in the fall of 2006, then experts came to the conclusion that “something needs to be done with them.” Today, there are about 60 thousand such children in Moscow alone, but the centers for their education can be counted on the fingers, although psychologists and teachers in Moscow and St. Petersburg have developed special programs for working with indigos and their parents to teach them how to create a harmonious environment in the family. In some circles, there is an opinion that closed institutions are organized by special services in order to calculate indigo and make super agents out of them. No one can say for sure whether this is true or not.

In the US and Canada, there are special centers where indigo children are identified. In Israel, this issue is supervised by experts from the government. In France, young people with an IQ above 130 can get the chance to study for free at a prestigious university.

About 40 years ago, the military departments of the USSR and the USA, in parallel, although independently of each other, began to study the possibility of telepathic communication of individual individuals with space. The enthusiasm was so great that the idea arose to create divisions of super-soldiers from psychics, whose astral body could be anywhere at any moment.

People with extraordinary abilities have been used in the armies before. different countries- to detect water sources, identify minefields, etc. And in the 1930s. the Anenner-be bureau, which worked as part of the German SS, tried to “breed a new breed” of superhumans. Information about the research was leaked to the press, after which a scandal erupted and this program was allegedly curtailed. Meanwhile, a little-known organization functioned in the USSR - the Separate Corps of the Strategic Reserve (0KPC), numbering about a thousand people, many of whom were listed as "white-ticketers", that is, they were exempted from military service.

The psychology of superchildren has not been fully studied, but it has been noticed that, despite their colossal IQ level (above 130 units), they do not perceive school curriculum, preferring to follow their own path in development. They are confident in their exclusivity, and generally accepted rules and norms usually do not bother them. From a young age, indigos talk about the fate of the world, show unique abilities and leadership skills. In order to try to understand them, it is worth recalling the ancient ideas about the trinity of human nature and the surrounding world, that everything around has three essences: spirit, soul and body. Therefore, the exclusivity of indigo is not due to genetic changes, but to their special spiritual and mental properties.

Indigos can see things that most normal people can't. Many of these children show the ability to predict the future or, conversely, "travel" into the past.

I met four-year-old Maxim two years ago on a beach in Bulgaria. The kid came up to me at the water's edge, pointed to the sea with a serious look and said: "He wants to tell me something, and you should know this too, persuade your mother to swim there." The words of the kid made me laugh, but I, as if under hypnosis, went up to his mother, met and offered to ride on a boat. Soon we were sailing out to sea, the captain was with us.

Suddenly, a dolphin appeared right at the side. Dancing on his tail, he clearly invited our baby to communicate. Max stroked his “friend” and said: “He says that NASA military parapsychologists, through human contact with his friends, go to Jupiter and its satellites, where there are also dolphins. The fields of experimental people are cut off from the earthly, so they cannot get used to the emotional and physiological plan natural for the Earth. They experience malfunctions in the psyche and physiology, they destroy the planet.” The event is so engraved in my memory that I remember everything as if it happened yesterday.

I asked the parapsychologist Leonid Soshnin to comment on the story. “If this child is indigo, there is nothing surprising,” he said. - Yes, indeed, NASA, and we, too, have such a program that allows using human contact with dolphins at the level of psychospheric resonators to receive information from space. The people involved in the experiments are most likely indigo, but in my opinion, these studies with dolphins will not yield anything useful. After all, “contactees”, on the contrary, carry an increased biorhythm of an alien planet, destroying the balance of our Earth.”

UNIQUES AMONG US

Pythagoras and Aristotle, Nostradamus and Avicenna, da Vinci and Copernicus, Lomonosov and Einstein - it is quite possible that all these prominent people of the past were indigo, as well as Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Hitler and Lenin, who changed the fate of millions, created empires and made revolutions.

They say that geniuses are born once in a hundred years. But the 20th century was particularly fruitful, at least

in Russia. Natasha Beketova from Anapa at the age of 16, after fainting, spoke 120 languages, including Old Persian, Arabic, Latin.

Natasha Demkina from Saransk at the age of 10, after the removal of the appendix, began to see without special devices internal organs person.

Bruce Khlebnikov, at the age of six, began to easily tear up 300-page reference books and repeatedly entered the Guinness Book of Records.

Sergei Krasnov from St. Petersburg has been able to read books with his hand on the cover since the age of three. Another Petersburger, Sergey Lebedkov, has a unique gift for speaking, reading and even singing, saying the words backwards.

Boris Kipriyanovich from the Volgograd region at the age of three accurately described what Mars looks like, and enlightened his dumbfounded parents on the structure of the Universe. All these indigos were able to cope with a heavy burden.

But Nika Turbina - no. She began writing "wise" poetry at the age of four. At the age of nine, the girl became famous throughout Soviet Union, an extraordinary child was predicted a brilliant future, but in 2002, 27-year-old Nika jumped out of the window.

The pathopsychologist Oleg Groznov echoes his colleague: “If indigo children are in the field of view of the special services, they are taken away and examined like guinea pigs. Children are taught by the best minds, develop their abilities. But not every adult can withstand long communication with them. I will give an example real case: a well-known healer was invited to one of the closed indigo schools, but, having not worked for half a year, she lost half of her abilities and vitality. Indigo's abilities are not only a gift, but also a heavy burden. Many do not live to adulthood, as their suicide rate is 2-3 times higher than that of ordinary children. Among suicides under the age of ten, indigos make up 90%.

Other pundits, however, are not inclined to dramatize. “It is easier for me than for anyone to talk about indigo children, since my wife and her entire family are specialists in correctional pedagogy. In their rich practice and in the experience of institutions such as the St. Petersburg Institute for Early Intervention, there were no guys matching the description of indigo. At least once to see the real ones! - says Mikhail Gershtein, Chairman of the Ufological Commission of the Russian geographical society. - It often happens that parents bring their children, sincerely mistaking them for indigo, but professionals see only mental deviations or pedagogical neglect. The abilities of each problem child are tested according to methods developed over many years. Ultimately, it turns out that they best case age-appropriate, at worst - significantly behind the norm. Parents, of course, are offended by doctors, because it is much more pleasant to consider a sick child an unrecognized genius than to come to terms with a diagnosis and the need for treatment or correction. Perhaps somewhere there are genuine indigos who combine giftedness and unusual abilities with behavioral problems, but until they catch the eye of professionals, it is premature to talk about this phenomenon.

However, not all ufologists share this opinion. Some of them believe that indigo is the result of alien experiments with our genes. "Green men" are trying to "bring a new breed" of earthlings, many times superior to us in spiritual and intellectual terms.

But why aliens need this - ufologists cannot answer, but as a strong proof of their theory, they argue that most indigo was born to parents with abduction syndrome (sure that they were abducted by aliens). Some of the indigo children talk about their past lives (on other planets).

According to the UN in Europe, the leaders in the number of indigo children are Finland and Estonia. In Russia - Karelia, the Kursk region, the Caucasus, Altai, the region of Lake Baikal and Sikhote-Alin. If we strengthen all the best qualities of the indigo generation, and “zero out” the shortcomings, we will have a breakthrough in everything: in the standard of living, science, self-knowledge, finally.

However, Father Valentine from the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in the Moscow Region holds the opposite opinion: “The aura of holy people was golden, orange, and indigo children - dark blue, like the night sky. It is known that the darker the aura, the more negative charge it carries. Such youths suffer from hysterical seizures, egocentrism, withdrawal into their own fantasies, rejection of norms of behavior. As a rule, they faint during the service and prayers. I am sure that these people are not born in the name of an evolutionary leap and the salvation of mankind, but confirm the hypothesis of its degeneration.”

It is possible that an evolutionary leap is taking place before our eyes, and the brain of new children works in a fundamentally different way. The editors of the magazine could not help but be interested scientific publication candidate of medical sciences Vladimir PUGACH and candidate of psychological sciences Valentina KABAEVA"Functional asymmetry of the brain in children: ambidexterity and ambicerebralness, new trends in evolution?" (1) . It tells about the significant growth of a qualitatively different group of children - with unique abilities, indicating "a qualitative leap in the features of the neurophysiology of laterality, especially in children born after 2000." What is the reason for this trend?

Increasingly, teachers are paying attention to the catastrophic decline in the intellectual potential of young people, their mental and cognitive abilities. But perhaps it's all about changing the perception of reality, and it's time to adapt educational methods for new children? Or maybe we are talking about the future change of the entire human population? What, then, should be education?

- Please tell us briefly about your research. What prompted you to take up the chosen topic?

V.P.: For twelve years, together with the staff of the Institute of Physical and Technical Informatics (Protvino, Moscow region), we have been conducting research on the perception of 3D spaces in children with attention disorders (ADD - attention deficit disorder) and attention disorders with hyperactivity (ADHD - syndrome attention deficit with motor activity). It turned out that in 100 percent of cases in children with ADD/ADHD, persistent phenomena of impaired perception of three-dimensional 3D spaces are recorded: separate near space (book, monitor screen) and / or separately distant space (perception of space in the classroom, school, in sports and games) .

These children have a defect in the perception of space in the form of a "window". In the "window" other laws of perception operate - in the form of a reverse perspective (as in ancient Russian icons). The brain of a child with ADD/ADHD in this "window" sees spaces, as in a mirror, where "right" and "left" are reversed. Therefore, the child writes a letter or syllable, as in a mirror, on the contrary. In such preschoolers, in almost 60 percent of cases, we diagnosed dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia (rearrangement of syllables when reading, letters and numbers written like in a mirror when writing, counting disorders).

What prompted me to take up the chosen topic?

The fact is that the daughter had ADD, the wife left work on her doctoral dissertation and taught daily lessons with her until the sixth grade. My son has ADHD. In the ninth grade, for violations of discipline, the boy was transferred to home schooling. By the way, now he is a successful psychologist! In those years, the psychology community knew nothing about the attention deficit associated with high intelligence. So the motivation was to try to understand - "what is it?" and “what to do?”.

VC.: Perception of the surrounding world provides for active processing of information - energy flow from external stimuli. This is largely due to the work of the visual analyzer. The result of perception are visual images of the world around us. Our brain in the course of perceptual activity consistently solves problems of different levels of complexity, which can be designated as perception phenomena (they are interpreted by different researchers in different ways). All theories try to explain why things look the way we see them? Are there several aspects in the act of perception that are not isolated, but reflect parts of the whole content? There are many questions.

We were interested in a very small aspect, but important for the practice of teaching: why is it difficult for some children to learn to write beautifully and competently?

Our developments are still insignificant in terms of comparison with the grandiose scientific tasks that are being solved in laboratories. We do not have sufficient material and technical base to conduct a broad study, but there is a desire to at least partially try to answer the question “How do moving spaces perceive junior schoolchildren with unformed voluntary attention?

When writing or reading, the child follows the pen, which writes out signs (letters, numbers) or already reproduces letters written by someone. During the study, Vladimir Pugach discovered the phenomena of “slip of the eye from the line” - the loss of a line when reading and the change in handwriting when writing long words or sentences, as well as the “broken mirror” phenomenon. This gave us the basis for further research on corrective work with a child with similar problems.

What are the main trends in the field of the new physiology of thinking and perception of children's reality that you are studying?

V.P.: We noticed some really interesting trends. In all countries, at the population level, the number of latent "left-handers" and the number of "left-handers" first began to increase. Then, within this group, ambidexters appeared - "two-handed", and their number began to increase rapidly. These are people with noticeably higher intelligence and abilities. But even more amazing! Scientists of the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education (Moscow) were forced to introduce a new term "ambicerebral", that is, "double brain". There are children whose brain can work in parallel and at the same time. For example, they easily write two different texts with both hands. In the history of mankind, such people are rare, but met. For example, Julius Caesar.

Similar, however, less pronounced processes occur in adults.

In October 2010, at the international congress on integrative medicine in Jerusalem (Israel), I had a report on the features of the brain of new children. I showed our spinning girl visual test to an audience of 350 people on a big screen. In this test, the moving shadow of a girl is depicted in such a way that, depending on the characteristics of the brain, it “rotates” in one direction or another. Then he asked those who have left-hemispheric asymmetry in the work of the brain to raise their hands. They were about 35 percent. About 25 percent had right hemispheric asymmetry. The remaining 40 were ambidexters! The audience burst into applause.

Certainly, given statistics indicative, as representatives of only 37 countries participated in the congress. On the other hand, it was the world's intellectual elite.

VC.: Now we are collecting data to determine the functional asymmetry of the children of the different ages. How large the sample of the subjects will be and how much it will meet all scientific requirements, unfortunately, depends not only on us.

Now there is a problem of the possibility of carrying out psychological research school based. Who decides whether such work can be carried out? The principal of the school or the parents of the students, or maybe the head of the scientific department of the university or laboratory? There is no legal and financial base. Often, many studies are carried out on the basis of good relations and professional interest of the psychologist and the administration. But even this gives certain results - some problems are solved privately. scientific questions. Of course, there are interesting observations, but they must be checked and rechecked.

- What conclusions can be drawn on the basis of the obtained data?

V.P.: It seems that an evolutionary leap is taking place before our eyes, and the brain of new children works in a fundamentally different way...

Does the pedagogical community in Russia know about the problem you are researching? Are you interested in results?

V.P.: Educators, especially teachers primary school, perceive our messages with great interest. They see a change: in each class there are several left-handed, from two or three to seven or eight hyperactive children. What to do? The leaders of the education system are still far from these problems. And they can hardly be blamed for it.

VC.: Parents, students and teachers are informed of the results of the study where they were conducted. This is still a small group of people and more often non-specialists in this field, but, undoubtedly, very interested practitioners.

Ambidexterity and ambicerebralness are becoming more and more common in children. In addition, quite adult people are surprised to discover such abilities in themselves. What is still primary: a change in external conditions, or nature is working ahead of the curve, forming a new generation of children ready to change the world, as experts in the United States believe?

V.P.: I can only express my assumptions with a certain caution. New children are born to parents from all social strata, though mostly in cities. This means that not only social factors, place of birth and income level of parents are at work here. By the way, our employee examined convicts in a juvenile colony. Among them, 87 percent were teenagers with ADHD (unfortunately, for various reasons, these data were not published). And this at a time when, according to our data, the number of children with ADD/ADHD was 12.5 percent of the population. Maybe, last years some effect on the embryo is exerted by the radiation of mobile communication systems, microwave, general level radiation in cities? Hard to say. Another fact is important: the brain of children has become more “high-quality”, but it matures more slowly, and school loads have increased.

You're talking about a new physiology of babies being born. Their brains work differently than the brains of their parents and grandparents. Does it mean that many unusual manifestations in the child's behavior can be explained by impaired attention?

V.P.: Yes. Look, there was a spontaneous disappearance of yard games and "classics". According to our observations, this is the result of distortion of the far visual 3D space of perception. Children miss when playing ball, tennis, badminton, and the game becomes boring and uninteresting for them.

Further, many ADD/ADHD children have regular short-term blackouts. Brain immaturity and information overload lead to extreme exhaustion nervous system- according to the type of "parabiosis N.E. Vvedensky" with its egalitarian and paradoxical phases in brain activity. The equalizing phase is when strong and weak signals are perceived equally. Paradoxical phase - a strong signal is perceived as weak, and a weak signal is perceived as strong. Parents know that yelling at a child in such a state is useless. It's like he doesn't hear. Or, conversely, in the classroom, the slightest noise is very distracting for the child.

New children have regular short-term blackouts. Moreover, from the inside, such shutdowns are invisible to them. In the “biocomputer” metaphor, the situation is reminiscent of pressing the “reset” button, that is, a quick reboot. At this moment, the child's brain rests and recuperates.

Take, for example, the switching of the right-left hemisphere activity of the brain. If we take the metaphor “our brain is a biocomputer”, then one operating system is installed and working for right-handers, and another for left-handers. It's like Windows or Linux. And the behavior is the same. For example, text on a printer on any operating system will look the same. And this is provided that the processing and structuring of information in these systems are fundamentally different. However, the end result is the same. Hence the futility of disputes - who is smarter: right-handed or left-handed.

It is even more surprising that children, it turns out, have two operating systems installed at once: both Windows and Linux! In the language of psychophysiology, this phenomenon is called "ambidexterity" (from Latin ambi - double, dextrum - right). That is, they are both right-handed and left-handed in terms of brain function. It's just that some are right-handed, while others are left-handed. Hence - very specific problems during the period of intensive brain development from five to fourteen years.

IN primary school this is a huge disadvantage. Remember the conflict between Windows-95 and Windows-98 operating systems? It's just that at that time computers like the IBM-486 were weak, and installing two operating systems at once led to programs freezing and crashing. The whole world scolded Bill Gates!

Today, all (!) versions of operating systems can be installed on modern computers. At the same time, Windows and Linux can run simultaneously on the same machine. The average user may not even be aware of this.

Finally, in our children, due to the immaturity of interhemispheric relationships, the switching of right-left hemisphere operating systems occurs spontaneously!

Example. In the evening, the child learned a poem with his mother, and this file is in the “W operating system”. In the morning in class, he could not remember it (moms, do you recognize the situation?), Because this file is not available to the “L operating system” that is currently operating. After school, mom asks:

Well, how did you answer?

Didn't answer. Forgot.

How so? Come on, tell me a poem!

And the child clearly tells - his brain has already switched again and is informationally in the “W operating system”.

Well done. What was new in your class?

I do not remember...

In fact, everything is simple: a file with a new educational material the child at this moment again lies in the "operating system L". A mother or teacher creates a complete illusion: “harmful”, “stupid”, “stubborn”. Twenty minutes later, the child suddenly remembers all the school news and informs his mother. It turns out that "school" and "home" files are scattered in different folders in different operating systems, hence the mosaic perception.

Thus, if in lower grades ambidexterity is a huge disadvantage, then in seniors it is a huge advantage. Both hemispheres begin to process information efficiently. Learning becomes too easy. Of course, if by this time the teenager has not formed a persistent aversion to learning.

How, in this case, to interest a child with impaired attention and not to miss him at the initial stage of education?

V.P.: You need to use game learning. Teacher elementary school I hope to become a professional game technician someday.

Are these changes in children aberrant, or is it time to reconsider this concept? What methodology can be used to equip teachers today so as not to “miss” such children?

VC.: The concept of "norm" in psychology, as well as medicine, is very relative and constantly requires revision. But this “constantly” is a very long time, one or two generations cannot be tracked. Now everyone says that children born three to five years apart are completely different. While scientists are discussing the issues of the "norm" and studying children of different ages, practitioners - teachers, educators, parents - continue to teach, heal, and educate those who are close to them.

The most important tricks and commandments remain eternal: treat others as you would like to be treated. Loving with an open soul, do not blindly dissolve in worries about the child's daily bread, but follow his interests, sometimes not understood by adults. We, adults, join the world of the future with children's interests, joys, worries. Children are wiser than adults. They know what is more important for them right now - to talk about friendship or to learn how to spell a letter, to evaluate the work of the next generation computer, or to fill out a table comparing angiosperms and other plants ...

We need a golden mean in everything, integration into the existing education system of the child, taking into account his development according to his own scenario. The question arises: how to do this when the program is overloaded, the class is overcrowded, and teachers and parents are inexperienced?

Possible solutions to the problem:

• assistant teacher - a volunteer trained in the intricacies of providing support to children of different groups;
• small occupancy classes, as in training foreign languages;
• usage pedagogical technologies, which "work", for example, in English language: textbooks "Happy House 1", "Teaching with Bear";
• point psychological help children;
• educational work in the teaching environment.

- Are there any psychological features new kids?

VC.: The answers to these questions are still at the level of human and scientific intuition - everything requires serious work and research. An example of this is the social situation of a child's development is changing, but it has not yet been described by the science of psychology. What is the structure of this situation, what is the weight of each of its components, how does each component affect the development, formation of neoplasms of age? What is the role of the family - parents and grandmothers, brothers, sisters and, in their absence, school, virtual space, peers? Questions remain open.

(1) Pugach V.N., Kabaeva V.M. "Functional asymmetry of the brain: ambidexterity and ambicerebralness, new trends?". - Sat: "Actual issues of functional interhemispheric asymmetry and neuroplasticity" (Materials All-Russian Conference with international participation). - M.: scientific world, 2008. - 808 p. pp. 79-83.