Parents who had their kids young?

I had my first at 18. It was 3 months before my final exams so I just had to study.. I got my HSC and had average marks, which was all I wanted. :)

I've been a stay at home mum for the last two years. Just before my sons second birthday I enrolled in Cert 3 in Children's Services. It is a two year course if you do 5 hrs a week, so the workload is pretty light. It's all via correspondence (online) and my son goes to daycare two days a week so I can study I'm choosing to do more then 5 hours a week so I can do the course in about 9 months. That way I'm qualified to care for young children before our next child is born.

I think you need to just enroll and work around it. Online is great because you can do it as fast or as slowly as you like wherever you like You can always find a way to make it happen. You just need the motivation!! :)

I had my first at 17 so I was still in school, unfortunately my pregnancy made me ill and I couldn't go to school, it was also to late for me to start distance schooling, so I left, I've now gone back and have been doing 3 subjects a year, so my final year will be completed over 2 years, I've put my son in daycare part time, he goes 3 days a week and I try to do most of my work when he's gone, my daughter will be joining him next year sometime, she's getting to an age when she wants to help, after that I plan on going to university and adopting a similar plan.

hey well done you! I am 23 and got married at 17 and now I have 2 amazing little children, I regret not learning before having them, I left school and went straight to work, I was too young to care about a good education at that age I just wanted to grow up fast. It is so easy to get on a course now, you can get funding for it too so you don't have to pay the full amount. I am looking into nursing but ?I have to retake my GCSE maths before I can go on the nursing course... you'll find that most courses are only for a few hours each day so you can work it around being home in time to get the kids from school :) x

Had my first at 19. People say that's pretty young, so maybe I'm qualified to answer your question LOL.

I dropped out of high school and then got my GED after having my first. I am going to school online, for now. I use nap time and bed time to get school work done.

One of my good friends graduated high school while pregnant with her first and has been doing school online since then, I believe she is about to get her first degree now and her daughter is only two years old. It IS possible.

I did not get my degree. I knew I wanted to be a stay at home mom.

I was married at 18 right after I got my GED. I knew getting a degree wasn't for me. I was expecting my first child at 19 & she was born just a few months before I was 20.

Don't pay any attention to Faith.....rumor has it she was running me down in a thread that I wasn't even involved in. Clearly she has issues.

"Something comes up" usually means life. Things are going to come up. Kids will get sick, money will get tight. You simply have to write out your goals, and say "this is how I'm going to acheive them" rather than "I'd really like to get a degree".

My mum gave birth to my eldest brother at 25.