for me It's just my husband and our two kids. I had to drop physiology this semester because I couldn't handle the full load this semester (Micro, Phys and Pharm.) I have no family here and all my friends that I have met out here are just now having their second kids so I can't ask them. I do have a friend in an NP program and she told me that her parents do 80% of the parenting and work so she can go to school and study. I asked her for some tips and she said it's all about extreme time management. If you aren't organized to the minute you won't make it. This was suppose to be my last semester of pre reqs but now I have to tag on an extra semester and wait for a whole year to apply to any programs :/ it sucks but, it's because I couldn't manage my time properly. now I have an extra semester to plan and train myself to study properly now that I'm married and have kids :)