It’s better to take a little longer to do something but do it right, then it is to overload yourself and give up in frustration.

Good luck, I know you can do it. The one thing i have noticed about my adult students is that they are alot more focussed than the students straight out of school.

They know what they want and they know what they need to do to get it.

I think it depends quite a bit on the ages of your child/children and what sort of course you’re doing. I opted for Art which I should have done when I was younger but went into the wrong course after school, so had a very strong motivation to get it right the second time around.

It’s good that you have the babysitting support system because that is at least 50% of it. If you’re asking about how you plan your time to get the most out of the course I can only offer the following:

1) If you have to do homework, set aside something like 2 hours every evening for study Monday to Thursday term-time. This means that even if you do not have an immediate assignment/essay you use the time to revise/copy up your notes/do a bit of background reading, etc. and get ahead. Then even if you have a family crisis you have some ‘credits’.

2) There will probably be other single parents on the course who you will meet.

3) Set yourself a sensible limit for your time on the internet.

4) Remember that however difficult it seems, that by studying you’re setting a good example to your child/children in their education.

5) Take, heart, old English adage ‘where there’s a will there’s a way’.

Very best of luck to you!

i would wake up at 5:15, get ready and wake my son up at 6:15 and put him directly into the car i would drive him to the babysitters, where he had all the stuff he would need – like diapers clothes toys etc, and i would run him inside and be at work by 645, work until 330, and go get him by 4…take him home and usually he and i were asleep by 9…hard but fun!!!!!