During the semester her daughters call every day and send her care packages of cocoa and Oreo cookies. And I know the kids noticed, but I just couldn't do what I usually do for the holidays. All college students feel burnt out by Christmas and Seel said she wasn't enthusiastic about having her children visit for a long time. The money wasn't available this year to pay for her children's tickets home for Christmas, Seel said. So her children paid their own fares home.
Financial concerns are different for older students.
Manseau worries that she won't have enough working years left to pay back the debt she has incurred from student loans and living for years without an income. It's about personal satisfaction at my age. It's not about finances. Seel has the ongoing crises of teen-age girls in love, sick parents, housework, gardening and homework to contend with. Mothers of large families are used to demanding schedules, but when the demands seem unreasonable, it's annoying.