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Barbara O’Neill How can Personal Financial Management Program staff encourage eliminating duplicate/redundant expenses? When working with military families, Personal Financial Management Program (PFMP) staff can help service members reduce monthly expenses by pointing out possible redundant expenses. Such expenses may include cell phone service versus a land line telephone, cell phone Internet versus home computer Internet, postage stamps for bills versus online bill paying, and an automobile loan versus public transportation.
An elimination of one expense over the other can yield savings for the service member. Find the answers to more military personal finance Frequently Asked Questions here. Veteran’s Day Thoughts-from my husband « JenREESources's Extension Blog. For this Veteran’s Day, my wife asked me to write my thoughts on being a Veteran.
I have served in the Nebraska Army National Guard for seven years now, and it has been a great opportunity to build myself as a person. I have been able to improve leadership skills, physical fitness, planning, self defense, and many other aspects. I had the honor of serving with Nebraska Agribusiness Development Team Two (NE ADT 2) in Afghanistan from June 2011 through May 2012. It was an incredible experience helping subsistence farmers improve their livelihood. One of the best experiences from my deployment was the friendships I made within our unit. Somewhere outside the wire are people that want to kill you. As a veteran, there are times when people will thank me for my service and I am not sure how to respond. On this day of remembrance, I say thank you to those I have had the opportunity to serve with, those who served before us, and those who are still in harm’s way.
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Sandra Bailey of Montana State University is an Extension Specialist, and is Director of the Montana Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Project. Dr. Bailey’s research and expertise focuses on parenting in nontraditional family structures. She has conducted research on single-parent families, nonresidential parenting following divorce, international adoption, and grandparents raising grandchildren. Dr. . • When parents in the military are deployed they often look to grandparents to take over the day-to-day caregiving role for their children. So many great resources were shared during the presentation. . * If you were unable to join the live session of this web conference and have viewed this archived session, you may be eligible to receive 1.5 AFCPE CEUs (if AFC credentialed) by taking a short quiz about this sessions content. This session can be viewed on YouTube at: OperationMilitaryKids. Connecting the World for the Common Good. Meet the Children’s Book Author: Dorinda Williams.
We’re looking forward to next week’s web conference, Using Books in Child Care to Connect with Military Children’s Lives.
We hope you are, too! Children’s books are a uniquely powerful way to get in sync with young children’s thoughts and feelings, especially around difficult situations they may be going through. But finding just the right children’s book to address a situation can be a real challenge. During the web conference we’ll be previewing a new resource that will be available in the fall: a searchable database of children’s books that will make that task a lot easier! Included in our collection are books specifically written for young children from military families that deal with issues such as deployment or homecoming of a parent. We asked Dorinda to share more about the books she has authored, her tips for sharing those books with young children, and her vision for CTAMF. About the books How did the idea to create children’s books come about?
Did you enjoy writing the books? Purple Up! For Military Kids.