Health & Fitness
Family Finances on a Personal Level: Introduction to a New Blog
Together, we will explore topics to make our household finances stronger and teach our children how to be smarter with money.
Family Finances on a Personal Level
Money has become the last taboo. We openly debate religion and politics, topics that were once forbidden in polite company.
Even things that happen behind closed doors are open for discussion and featured in daytime programs and nighttime television plots.
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If we as families, as neighbors, and as community members and leaders continue to keep the real discussion about money in whispers, we risk sheltering our children from the lessons they should be learning to avoid repeating the mistakes we have made ourselves and as a society.
Over the weeks to come, this blog will explore a range of topics about household finances and suggest ideas to help ourselves, as well as the next generation, make changes to create a better today and tomorrow.
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Along the way, I hope you smile, you learn, and you find some small and big ways to make positive changes in your finances.
Maybe the next time you sit at dinner, you will talk about some of your financial goals and past mistakes with your partner or your children and work together on ways to grow in your journey for a stronger financial foundation.
I would love to hear suggestions on topics you’d like to see so we can grow together!
About me: Our family moved to Pleasanton in 2004. Our two children graduated from high school in PUSD and are now in college — our daughter in the Bay Area and our son in New England.
As an empty-nester, I enjoy spending more time with my husband, quilting, and being involved with Guide Dogs for the Blind. Miss Maybelle (my career-change Guide dog puppy) and I are a Dog Therapy team with Valley Humane Society and participate in the Paws to Read program at the Pleasanton library.
I work as an accountant for small businesses and non-profits but my passion is being a Personal Finance Coach and Facilitator of Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace Military Edition. I am a recipeint of a 2011 FINRA Foundation Military Spouse Fellowship for the Accredited Financial Counselor® Program.
