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Just to clarify some things.. My concern is if I will be able to do nursing school while also homeschooling, not if I can homeschool while doing nursing. If my children's education will suffer then nursing will be put on hold. Our plan is for the children to do their lessons during the day which consist of workbooks and in certain subjects they have a textbook that goes along with the work book. We use Christian Light Publications and a lot of the work can be done independently because of how the workbooks actually "teach" the lesson. Of course I'll be teaching them new material in the evenings and helping them learn what they do not understand from their light units (workbooks). As far as my mom and mother in law not teaching…. my mother in law does not have the skills to correctly teach a lesson. My mom does but does not have the curriculum at hand to fully understand the methods used to teach as I pack their daily lessons depending on what they are doing that day… and she only watches them a couple of days a week and my MIL watches them the rest of the week at their own homes. I grade their papers in the evenings and plan out their lessons as well as read ahead so I can know the areas we'll need to touch on that have not been learned yet or need extra teaching besides what the units can offer. The great thing about home school is that we can relax and take it a little easy during the colder months then work a normal schedule during the summer which is our plan since we live in the HOT south and it's just too hot for the kids to play outside much. So even though they are being taught lessons during the cold months I do lighten their work load since they will be schooling in the summer. home school is flexible and not always taught at "home". Anyway… defending my choices wasn't the reason for my post. I was just wondering if the nursing program was so hard that you really do have to give up jobs and most of the family time.

Thank you both for the quick responses. I'm certainly hoping that it will all work out. My mom and mother in law will not teach or help with the school work. We decided that it was best to have only myself and my husband do the teaching and not others because we think that will be confusing. They simply watch the kids. My mom already watches my niece who is 12 and homeschooled but she doesn't teach her either. This past semester I had the kids do their school work on my days that I was home (I only had classes at the college 2 days a week). So this will be very new to us to have the kids do what they can on their own (i'm hoping they can do a large amount) and me finish what they need help with in the evenings and touch on the new material with them to make sure they understand it. Everything is paper for them as we choose to go with a workbook curriculum. They all play soccer and that usually consist of 2-3 practices around 6pm during the week and they will start that next month again. I think I can manange to get some studying in during that time while I am on the sidelines.

I start my first semester of Nursing tomorrow. It's a 2 year ADN program through my local community college. During the orientations they drilled in us that our life and even kids will be put on hold. If anyone has a job to quit it and to expect to not spend much time with family. I home school my 3 children. They are 12, 10 and 8. My mom and mother in law will watch them during the day and they will do lessons on their own and what they have problems with I will teach them in the evenings. Does this seem impossible? One of the nursing instructors looked at me with such sad eyes when I told her I home school. Anyone else here been down this road?