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Students experience parenthood while attending school
By Tori Foster
THE BATTALION
On Thursday night many college students
head to Northgate for a break from the daily
demands of college. While most students are
barhopping, Amy Schiller-Waiser is tucking
her 1-year-old daughter, Mikayla, into bed.
Schiller-Waiser and her husband, Travis
Waiser, a senior agronomy and rangeland ecol
ogy and management major,
arrange their schedules so that
Iheyare not in classes at the
same time.
When Schiller-Waiser, a sen
ior early childhood development
major, gets home, it’s time for
her husband to attend classes or
his job at the soil characteriza-
lion lab where he works 18 to
20hours a week.
When the couple does have
class at the same time or needs a
break, Angie Schiller, a fresh
man speech communication
major, helps the couple by
watching Mikayla.
“My little sister is the biggest
ip,” Schiller-Waiser said.
“She’ll come over so I can get
some studying done because it’s
really hard to do anything with
Mikayla.
u
Before I was
pregnant, we used to
go out every other
weekend. Now our
idea of going out is
to go rent a movie
and bring it home so
we can all watch it
together.
The couple works together to balance the
daily grind of their lives. While Schiller-
Waiser’s husband works, she tries to spend as
ichtime with Mikayla as possible.
They said that through hard work and deter
mination, they have managed to become inde
pendent and develop a budget that covers the
whole family. Even though college has been
an extra stress on their lives, they say they
never let that stress stop education from being
a primary goal.
“It’s tight, but we’re making it,” Schiller-
Waiser said. “We’ve always had the goal that
we were going to finish college, so there never
was a question of quitting.”
While the couple continues school and
endeavors to be good parents, they say that one
of their priorities is to make time to be a couple.
“Not only does it take work
being a mother, but it also takes
work to keep a marriage togeth
er,” Schiller-Waiser said.
“Sometimes you’ve just got to
put the homework off and spend
some time together, otherwise,
you find that you’re just grow
ing apart. Before 1 was pregnant,
we used to go out every other
weekend. Now our idea of going
out is to go rent a movie and
bring it home so we can all
watch it together.”
Christina Ybarra, a senior
early childhood development
major, is the single mother of
two children, Mark, 10, and
Natalie, 12. She will tell anyone
that her children are the greatest
gifts that the “man upstairs” has
given her, and the words hope
and faith are popular in her
vocabulary.
“Where there is a will, there is a way,” she
said. “Si puedo. To me, it’s like you can do
anything if you put your mind to it.”
As an extra test of her stamina and strength,
Ybarra takes care of her father, who suffers
from epilepsy. She said her typical day is filled
— Amy Schiller-Waiser
senior early childhood
development major
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with getting her children ready to go to school,
attending classes and working 24 hours a week
at a local elementary school to support her
family.
Ybarra said she has adapted to being able to
study in any environment, and often completes
her homework at work or studies for a midterm
at her children’s soccer practices.
“Never give up and always have faith,” she
said. “I’ve learned to take deep breaths. You
don’t have time for much, but it only takes a
second to take a deep breath and give yourself
a little push to keep going.”
The Texas A&M Children’s Center provides
care for students with children and focuses on
assisting student-parents with affordable child
care and a preschool program.
“We provide access to childcare, we are
close and diverse, and we follow the
University schedule so that we are available to
the students,” said Di Fontenot, the center’s
director. “Our link with the University has
granted them the comfort to continue their
education. The University is aware that we
have a large population of student-parents that
need this assistance.”
The center offers full- and part-time care
year-round and is able to meet the diverse
needs of the families.
Not only does it provide care for children, .
but it helps clients maintain their educational
and career goals.
For Amy Schiller-Waiser and Todd Waiser,
balancing classes and a 1-year-old is a fulfill
ing day.
“Mikayla is a spark in a day that is so full
of classes and organizations,” Waiser said.
“She doesn’t care about any of that. It’s the lit
tle things that make her happy, her laughing
makes the whole day worthwhile.”
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