While the news of an imminent child is usually cause for great joy it can be, unless you have a fantastically supportive family or personal means, a serious impact on your professional life. Someone is going to have to care for the new infant in the vulnerable early years of life. This means that, for most families one parent will have to leave the workforce whether until arrangements can be made for child care to allow the parent to return to work.
Naturally Mums and Dads can both look on the idea of being removed from the workplace as calamitous to their personal careers. Not only will their skills begin to wilt from lack of use but not being present in the workplace may cause them to fall behind with their career prospects. Staying at home and looking after baby threatens to consume everything in one’s life.
Fortunately, thanks to the internet, it’s never remained easier to remain connected to the world even from the quiet of one’s own home. Online learning courses provide the ideal means for stay at home parents to train and develop their professional skills while bringing up their children. Among the many reasons many are turning to distance learning are:
It’s Affordable: Lets face it, babies are expensive. Between cots, clothes, food. smashed priceless heirlooms and everything else money for extras can be a bit tight. Fortunately, distance education is comparatively affordable, especially when compared to the cost of attending many traditional education institutes.
It’s Convenient: Many distance educators are incredibly flexible with the terms of learning. This means you can do your studies around the chaotic lack of schedule that life with a new born can bring. Up all night comforting the baby? That’s not a problem when you can take as long as you need.
It’s a chance to learn new skills: You can use your distance learning course to stay on top of development in your career. With all the time spent at home it is an excellent time to re-evaluate what you want out of life. If you’ve ever felt that you wanted to explore the possibility of a career change, the time out from your career as a caregiver to a new child is a great time to do it.
You get to do some Grown up Thinking: As much fun as babies can be many people look on the idea of months of nappy changing and sleepless nights without contact or engagement with other grownups as terrifying. But with a distance learning course you can get a break from the trials of domestic baby care chores and get to engage your brain in the more challenging problems and ideas of the adult world. Many courses will put you in touch with expert academics and other students which can give you a real sense of community when you have had to otherwise withdraw from the outside world.
There’s plenty of other reasons to consider distance learning as well, starting from the huge range of potential courses on offer. If you wanted to build websites, start a business or grow flowers there is a course for you. Taking an online learning course gives you the chance to push your life forward when it might seem otherwise on hold, letting you prepare yourself for wherever you want to go.
