School as a single parent

With Christmas on the horizon and tuition almost due for next semester I find myself thinking 'what the he'll am I thinking going back to school'? Wow school as a single mom Of 3 is something else. The class work is certainly not terribly difficult. I have yet to enter into a course that has been too much of a killer microeconomics aside. But really, the shear volume of work is brutal. Between my studying, my job, laundry, housework, chauffeuring my kids everywhere, swimming lessons, dance lessons, volunteering at the kids school, trying to squeeze every drop out of my seriously lacking social life that I can it's a wonder I can even get throuh one day let alone an entire school year.

However, to any single parent out there who is contemplating a return to school I say why not. As a single parent we face a set of disadvantages in life that no one else but a single parent faces or can even comprehend and the simple fact is those will exist whether or not we attempt to educate ourselves. Think about of this way; if you continue on the path you are on now, you may have or obtain stable employment that is acceptable. You may see a payraise or two. But as a single under-educated parent the best one can hope for is to be able to live paycheck to paycheck always one pay period away from homelessness. If however, you sacrifice what little free time you have, cut back everywhere you can and accept the fact of poverty for a few years - really no different than ones current reality anyways - then at least you will have something to be proud of. Children grow up just the same poor as they do rich, as long as they are healthy, taken care of and loved and the reward of giving them a goos role model of what hard work really is is worth the struggle , at least to me.