Product Description
This guide provides practical and informative advice about the realities of being a student parent including the two most important considerations: finances and childcare. It dispels myths about typical students, assesses why parents make good students and looks at how teenage pregnancy does not preclude higher education. Advice for dealing with student life while managing parenting responsibilities is included, along with tips for academic success. Written by a former student parent, this book contains information on becoming pregnant while in education, funding and benefits available, childcare, student life, dealing with deadlines and exams and helping your children to understand your studies.
About the Author
Camilla Chafer is a freelance journalist who has written for a wide range of newspapers, magazines and websites. When she was 18 she had a baby and also started at Leeds University, completing a BA Hons and an MA. She has written about her experiences of being a student parent for The Times and The Independent, and has also written for MyChild website, The Telegraph, Woman and Home and other publications. She recently contributed to a teenage pregnancy conference aimed at helping young mums back into education. Camilla now lives in London.