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missdawn93
missdawn93

Sometimes I feel like giving up because rasing kids going to school full time and working full time is very challenging Im starting to notice I am getting behind on school work which is pretty frustrated

GirlinCalif
GirlinCalif
It sounds like you have a lot on your plate.

Do you have any help? Someone that could maybe help with the kids, or give you a break sometimes?

Does your school semester end pretty soon, it's May now, so hopefully you'll be done soon.

Keep going, you can do this.
Eireloom
Eireloom
missdawn93, that is a heavy load. My heart goes out to you. With one child, I was doing the same thing, but could not handle it all. I wound up having to work fewer hours, but still could not get all of my course work in on time. I went to my professors and was given extra time on a few reports, and that helped. The next semester, I learned to try and retain everything that was said in class, use every spare minute for studying and schoolwork. It was very grueling. Hang in there, I took a lighter load after that and it took a lot longer to graduate, but I simply couldn't do it all, and realized that I was not doing well in any of the 3 areas, and it was ok to adjust my timeline to fit my reality. It was not the same reality as my classmates, and what could be done without a child and a job, was not the same as I could do with both.
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