sgx2

I was afraid of that. lol Unfortunately, I'm the last in my family to get an education. I stayed at home with all my siter-in-law's kids while they went to school and now that they have their jobs, there's no one to watch my kids for me. Such is life, I guess. The only university near me has the same inflexbility as the college (called to find out), so I guess I won't be going back to school until the little ones are big.

I was all set to go back to school (to do the nursing school prereq, and eventually get into nursing school) when I found out I was pregnant with my second child. I decided not to start since I figured a new baby would keep me too busy to focus on school. Now I'm just about ready to have my 4th child (time flies!), and I'm really wanting to get back to school. I'd planned to enter the program at my local junior college (for the ADN), and I just have a few prereq classes to get out of the way before I can apply for the program. I believe the college will even let me take some of those prereqs online (like an English class I need, etc), so I was hoping to get it started so that I'd be ready to apply for the nursing program by the time my child was able to go the day without me. However -- here comes the question -- I look at all the nursing school schedules and I see that they have your 4 semesters all planned out, including clinical work. Is this flexible at all? As a mother with a family to take care of, I can't be in school/clinical for 8-12 hours at a time. Is it possible to do nursing school part-time, or is that frowned upon? I know that once my kids were all school-aged, I could work full-time, but I wanted to start school part-time sooner than that. Is this unrealistic when it comes to nursing school? Should I just forget the whole thing until they're older?