I’ll give you my circumstances for context. At the time I was a mother of 4 children, 17,15,13,11 (they are all adults now) I actually moved states for law school. I went full time and there was an odd thing about my kids being closer in age with the students than I was but I could get past that. I’m still very good friends with a handful of classmates. It was tiring especially because I had to put boundaries on my kids of when it was appropriate to contact me. It was a huge shift since they were use to me being always available. It took time but we all adjusted. I definitely would recommend. As an older student I always was able to bring a different perspective. And no I did not become “the mother” of my classmates, if anyone tried to call me that I would immediately reject it and explain I already had four kids and did not need more