I'm hoping you girls can help me with about 100 questions - any advice is welcome too.

The time has come for me to retrain and I think I'd like to study Psychology.

ProsI need a trade or degree to ensure ongoing/stable employment
Dad is a well-respected Psych, earns 6 figures from home, loves what he does and is still going strong at the age of 85.
I've worked for him for about 13 years - I can't tell you how much Ive absorbed.
Dad would be a massive source of help for me.
Dad sort of can't retire because his clients won't let him - I could have a business quite quickly by taking over from him.

Cons

THE MONEY
I'm scraping though right now and have been this past year. I'm not working becuase I really cannot find anything that interests me at my level.
Can I live in poverty whilst I study, I'm sick to death of it already?
I have 3 kids and I'm on my own, I don't have another income to back me up.
I don't know how much it will cost me and I'm too scared to look in case it smashes my dreams already.
I did a year of Bachelor of Health Science in Natropathy a while back (NB - never marry a man who encourages you to drop your studies) and loved it however I did struggle a bit with isolation and the silly 19 yr olds taking up class time showing off their 'knowledge', secure living at home with parents paying their way.
I realise I needed more 'head time', especially studying things like anatomy (having flat mates attempting to pass joints under my door every 10 mins to 'help me study' was rather frustrating too!)
I have FAR more motivation now.

O.K - So I know the books are exxy, and for years I felt Tertiary Ed was a luxury. Now I feel it's a necessity, but can I afford it?

I have a young friend studying the same, his full time hours were about 2 days per week. What constitutes full time or part time?

Where can I find out about scholarships (or find a sugar-daddy?).
I would probably be prepared to go back to my old (horrible) work part time in order to help out and the money is pretty good. If was a means to an end I could probably do it.

HHmmmmmm

Reading the other threads has been a great source of info so far (Congrats you guys!), maybe I could spend this year preparing for the STAT thing and working a crap job to get ahead in the bils etc?

I keep thinking this is a bit of a pipe dream - is it?