If you need to find extra income to help support your child, you could consider renting out their room to a lodger while they are away. Many lodgers will only need a room during the week, meaning that if your child wants to come home at the weekend, they would still be able to. So...
"I'll no tell ye a lee," said the woman. "There's twae guid beds in the loft117. But I dinna tak' lodgers118 and I dinna want to be bothered wi' ye. I'm an auld wumman and no' as stoot as I was. Ye'd better try doun the street. Eppie Home micht tak' ye." Dickso...