Your Major.

It's that time of the year students go off to college to learn, create direction and a career, get away from parents, among other changes for their future. As with every August, I stress that no matter what curriculum one takes, it needs to lead to a career when one is finished. Too many graduates come to see about me about what to do with their lives as they have majored in subjects like Art History, Creating Writing, Theology, and the lists goes on and on especially in the creative fields that simply go nowhere after graduation. Have fun with your creative classes. I think they are important, but there has to be more.

As school is so expensive, it has to have a practical application especially in today's job market. I know that many students will not have the finances to attend the college of their dreams, but start small and transfer later with good grades.

Popular majors today include Film and Communications - everyone wants to express their inner creative and not go corporate. Of course the computer fields and health fields ... still attract students. Technology is always the future.

In the end ... it all goes to photographic memory ... the more you retain ... the more you accomplish in school. My clients off to grad school generally have a GPA of 3.7 and above, know they have almost total recall and count on that in their choice of career. To tap into their brain is to see clarity ... awesome. Depression clouds with confusion and is often linked to various degrees of ADHD - a far broader topic than is known.

Also in the college years, especially in today's challenged energies, students will be entering the age when personality disorders surface (19-20) and chaos reigns. If a teen was challenged in High School, it will all come to a head now. Be careful. So many mistakes are made in these years.

In life, we change our careers, partners, homes, and just about everything. When it comes to college, it is often important to select a practical major along with something that holds more passion. The first is for the years one overachieves, and the other for the time they drop out and go creative. With luck they mix the two from the start.

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My Friends and Family.

Friends who are sending their children off the college this year have been calling about so many things that include -- Should a freshman have a car ... finding local students who are going away to the same college to travel back and forth with ... finding their child's dorm online, general preparations, and more. The freshman year is definitely a grow-up year when many teens become sexual.

My 3 daughters all went away to different colleges/universities and had great experiences. Zsia met her husband Jon while away and as it turned out ... he lived a few miles from where she grew up in Brooklyn. My daughters also went away for grad school. Nikki studied in Europe one summer - another amazing experience as the world shrinks and souls want a global hands-on approach to learning.

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Elementary and High School.

Grades don't really matter before one gets to High School. Many students appear brilliant in elementary school, but that all changes at puberty when children often get lazy and emotional problems start to surface. High School is where it really begins ... so pay attention to your teen's patterns and friends.

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Back to School Stuff.

Can any parents save enough to put their children through college these days? Let's hope scholarship money and grants continue in a bad economy. There are bargains on laptops and be sure to check loan money and scholarships.

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Multiple Births and School.

Someone you know, or you personally, may be returning to college now. You may also be part of a family where more than one person will be in college this school year (lots of money).

Twins and triplets really take this over the top financially as they remain in school 4 consecutive years at the same time. .... $$$$$$.

Now let's go to ... 8 children.

The buzz is about Jon and Kate Plus 8 and their current divorce fiasco. Boring .... We have just got to get these kids away from their parents before they all wind up in therapy. Imagine the day this group all goes off to college. I hope they are saving money from their TV show.

Next we find the lady who is forever stressing education - Nadya Suleman a.k.a. Octomom. I bet she can't wait to get the little ones off to college, or any school for that matter! Did someone say ... students loans? Are we paying for their tuition? Didn't Nadya just have a mini breakdown. Did she confess that it was all a mistake - that bringing the 8 babies home has really upset her other children! Ya think! Which ones? The autistic 2 year olds?

Wednesday August 19: Fox TV special "Octomom, The Incredible Unseen Footage"

This morning I watched the special, recorded last night. There is so much to say about Nadya and her family, one could write a book ... and I'm sure someone is.

Nadya's mother summed it up when she said, "Life is one crisis after another," when referring to life with Nadya and the children ... or was she referring to the bigger picture of reality.

Between all the children crying, screaming, biting, hitting, calling her a bitch, having melt-downs and more, Nadya made two statements that were worth posting. The first made me think of Michael Jackson.

Most of us are trying to recreate our childhood in our adulthood.

Parents want their children to carry out their dreams, those that were unfulfilled.

Like many people, Nadya hated the family she grew up in and felt disconnected. I can't tell you how many people I have read who tell me they know they were raised in the wrong family.

Nadya felt alone and unloved by her mother who seems to be in la la land if you ask me ... and oh those stories about rescuing cats were awful to me as I am not a cat person. Did she really lock her mom up in the trunk of the car after a cat incident, and laughed as she rolled back and forth and told the story on TV? It was kind of funny the way she described it while laughing ....(snicker)

Okay .. so Nadya tries to play the role of the woman who has everything under control, but I have to say, all of these children will have issues in the years ahead ... actually they do now.

I'm not sure how any of them can tolerate all that noise and have a clear thought. When I read clients from large families, one of the first things I see through their perspective is that they left home early to get away from all the noise. Souls need quiet time. We all need quiet time every day or we burn out and disconnect.

One's heart has to go out to the autistic twins who need to be removed from the home before something serious happens ... and it will.

Then there's the ghosts .. Yup! Nadya's house is haunted. She talked about various incidents reported by herself and the Nannies, some recorded by the surveillance cameras. I admit to finding that part of the interview an interesting twist and more believable than a lot of what Nadya said about her life and appearance.

The father of the twins: Nadya has yet to name him, but she and her mother don't seem to get the fact that he wishes to remain anonymous and out of their lives. If I were him, I'd go into witness protection! (giggle)

So as you move through your day ... and the world seems dysfunctional once again ... think of Nadya as it might put a smile on your face knowing someone out there has it worse !

Somewhere in the program, this was thrown into the mix in end times, as if a soap opera or diversion as the program evolves into infinity (8).

Good luck Nadya ... you need it. Please never come to me for a reading! I'm booked through 2012 (grin) ... which I still maintain is a metaphor like everything else in this reality, though closure draws near.