I have a ten month old baby, and i wanna start college, help?

Question

my husband is working two jobs, kuz im not working. i hate not seeing him, and i hate not providing, but we also have a ten month old. i am going stir crazy, but i dont really want her in a day care yet, and im not really comfortable with someone babysitting her everyday. but, he's in college, im trying to get in, we both are trying to start careers, so i gotta get a baby sitter and just suck it up and get a job, right?

Answer 1

Its tough, but yeah.  I sobbed the first time I left my son.  Good luck!

Answer 2

Take tv classes, online college courses, start a moms group where you live. If he is making enough money, I would rather stay at home with my child. Go to the local library or church and hang out with other moms. Kids grow up so fast. you'll blink and he'll be in school. you'll blink again and he'll be driving. try to go out on a date with your hubby and let someone watch him. take care. good luck.

if you can't get out, have a date at home while he is sleeping.

Answer 3

Take on-line classes. I had my daughter two weeks into my first class and I have made the Dean's List twice. On-line classes can be harder than on campus classes because you pretty much have to teach yourself but at least you can stay home with your baby and get your education at the same time! If I can do it, you can do it!! Best of luck!!

Answer 4

A job and go to college, while having a toddler and a husband who works two jobs and goes to college as well?  When do you plan to be a family?  A couple?

I'm so glad that my dh has always made it easy for me to be a SAHM, not all husbands do.  I made it easy for me too, by being willing to keep our family expenses in check.  This was pretty easy for me to do, since my parents raised me to be a very simple person with simple wants and needs.  As a young couple, we didn't have much, but we had each other and our eldest daughter and we made do.  We spent wisely and were even able to buy a home on a very low ranking enlisted soldeir's salary.  

Why not find a way to get out of the house:  park, library, museums, McDonald's where you can "chat" with people?  Park, library (toddler reading times), some museums are free and at McDonalds all you have to do is buy an ice cream cone and they can't tell you to leave the play area where you can chat with other moms.  

Why not cut your expenses so your dh doesn't have to work two jobs?  Then go to college and put your baby in the campus daycare while you attend class.  At that point I would reccommend that you not work:  focus on school and your daughter---that will be hectic enough.   If you have to get a job do a college work study.  

Our children are our treasures.  I hope that you chose to work or go to college out of need or a long seated desire, to do it for reasons less than that is completely beyond my comprehension.  Children need and deserve their parent's time, I could never have cheated my girls or myself from all those wonderful moments that I have shared with them for the past 14 and 5 years respectively.  My dh wouldn't have had it any other way and I love him even more for giving me this gift of my childhood dream.  :*)

Answer 5

No, you don't have to get a babysitter and suck it up. I teach online college classes, and I have lots of stay at home moms in my classes. (and the occaisional stay at home dad, too!) I teach for the Axia College of the University of Phoenix, and most of my students are very happy.  

Answer 6

Go to your local community college and they normally have a program where you can take the majority of classes online. That way you can still stay at home but yet do something with yourself. Also, they have daycares on the college campus so the baby will be close to you, that might make you feel a bit better.