University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1985
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New group providing help for KU parents
By BARBARA ETZEL Staff Reporter
Like other students, Carolyn
learns to test
and finishing homework on time.
But the 32-year-old Lawrence senior also worries about missing classes 'when one of her three children is sick or finding a baby-sitter when she needs to study at the library.
She's not alone. Many students who are parents encounter such problems. But a new group, KU Parents, is trying to lend them support.
The group formed last fall after Imhof-Hoffer talked to Saran Martin, an assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, about some of the problems she faced as a parent and student.
Imhof-Hoffelder, an architectural engineering student whose children are ages 10, 8 and 6, got the idea for KU Parents, from an informal website called Be Loving Us, to serve as a student at St. Louis Community College in Forest Park Mo.
KU Parents is refining its role to meet the needs that students say they need help with, such as babysitting or on how to manage their schedules.
So far this year, the group has sponsored three brown bag lunches and a potato cup supper. They have also been involved in a baby crawl area and started a babysitting network.
Martin said the babysitting network had been helpful for the
Martin compiles this information and mail it to the parents, who are then responsible for making their own arrangements.
The network is designed to help parents when they need a babysitter at the last minute because of a test or assignment.
Finding the time to be with children is another common problem many parents face.
parents. Since February, about six parents have filled out information sheets telling when they could take care of their baby. A probable would need a babysitter.
Charles Croft, 32, a Lawrence senior, wanted to spend time with his 6-month-old daughter, but he had a date due yesterday and a test today.
Croft said he wasn't aware of KU Parents' newsletter.
Martin said the newsletter had received positive responses, but the brown bag lunches and potluck supper didn't have high turnouts.
Debra Seeger, 32, a Lawrence sophomore and mother of a 5-year-old son, said she was interested in going to one of the lunches, but couldn't attend because she was busy.
Besides juggling school and child responsibilities, Seeger said, she also had encountered unsympathetic faculty who didn't understand that sick children their problems couldn't be scheduled around classes and assignments.
But most teachers are helpful. Imhof-Hoffelder said
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