I guess now thatall of our kids have graduated college, our younger siblings have been asking for advice from us about how to get money for their kids to go to college.
Unfortunately for them, there seems to be more money available for the minority races through minority scholarships than through “regular” college scholarships! I know that for a fact myself because I was looking around for some college grants for my wife to go back to college and get a pharmacist’s degree!
As smart as my wife is, we will never be able to afford for her to go back to college – we depend too much on her income to survive. We’d never be able to survive while she was in school.
One word of advice I’d like to give people – go to college BEFORE you get get married and have children! It is so much easier when you are not bound to a specific location and have to support a family!
After I typed in the title of the previous post a song got stuck in my head and I just had to look it up on YouTube.com. It was never a popular song, I never heard it on the radio, but it was on a record album that my oldest brother used to listen to and I really liked it.
I’m glad that I found it on YouTube.com, it has been decades since I’ve heard or even thought of it. Check it out……..
My sister and her husband are up in arms about their oldest child who is in dire need of one of the drug rehab centers near where they live. He has gotten in with the wrong crowd, it started right when he started attending Middle School, which is when a lot of kids start going down hill, as the statistics show us. My sister is busy finding information on the Internet concerning the drug rehabilitation programs that they would be able to hook him up with. The Internet certainly is making this task a much easier one to tackle and she is able to share her findings with friends and family who are into emailing and the like.
There are good quality addiction treatment centers available these days. With the economy is such a mess more people are turning to drugs and alcohol as an escape from all the heart aches that our government has gotten us all involved in. This country is in a major mess and we need all the help that we can get, especially in this aspect.
I feel for my sister’s family, I can only hope and pray that they find the right place for him and that he pulls through and can make something of himself and his life. He is a bright kid, always brought home great report cards and has a real apptitude for working with his hands. I wish them all the luck in the world, just wish I was closer so that I could be of more help with it all.
