Even better, then offer to help watch grandkids and homeschool them if your grown children and their spouses work. Who better to help your children and adorable grandchildren than you? Doing so could make your retirement years happiest years of your life.

You have so much wisdom and knowledge that you have accumulated over years. You have so much love you still have to give. How your children would appreciate your love and help with your grandchildren! If you helped homeschool your grandchildren, what a wonderful gift that would be for your children, your grandkids, and most of all, yourself. Think about it.

An IWUOnline administration representative recently described essential traits that a new-to-online learning student should possess as including “discipline, determination and endurance, though not necessarily in that order.”

Such traits allow students to balance themselves, embracing freedom distance learning provides while avoiding falling behind. The discipline ensures projects are completed; determination lets adults juggle their professional responsibilities with their academic ones while remaining focused on their goals and not giving up; and endurance provides ability to successfully meet demanding coursework, even when life doesn’t yield to added pressure.

Even students who possess all discipline, determination, and endurance in world could be at risk of failing if they had to face their challenges alone. Students do not learn in an isolated bubble; they learn by surrounding themselves with others, they learn from their peers, their professors, from like-minded individuals and from their polar opposites.

In short, students learn best when they are part of a community, and that’s exactly what IWUOnline offers ─ a tightly knit community that overcomes geographical distances to forge spiritual and academic bonds.