Hi Cynthia, Thank you for these excellent remarks on how you can be successful as an older or non-traditional student. As you know many students think they are the only ones going through these stressful situations as they are trying to complete school. By knowing their instructors have gone through it and that their peers are going through it they can see that by determination and effort they can do it as well. Good example of a simple strategy for completing part of an assignment with their child "helping" by coloring their paper while you are working on your own. Gary