Carol Pittner and Doug Nordman – Raising Financially Savvy Children

Doug Nordman served for 20 years of active duty in the U.S. Navy’s submarine force and retired in 2002 at the age of 41. He and his spouse, a retired Navy Reservist, reached financial independence in 1999 on a high savings rate.

Carol Pittner was born & raised in Hawaii, and joined the Navy on a ROTC scholarship.  She’s been stationed around the world on a destroyer and an aircraft carrier before moving to the Reserves.  She and her active-duty spouse are rapidly approaching financial independence on a high savings rate.

Carol and Doug's Vroom Veer Stories

• Doug was born in Pittsburgh, got to Hawaii as soon as possible in the Navy
• Carol was born and raised in Hawaii, did her K-12 in Hawaii
• Doug retired when Carol was in 5th grade, she didn't have go to the before/after soon programs; Dad was home now
• Being retired can include some feelings of isolation; you need a plan to have social support; don't use this as an excuse to stay in a job that you don't like, you can work through this issue
• Feeling a need to contribute something to your family and to the world is normal; finding out what that will look like can cause some fear; done right it can be lots of fun
• What's it like to write a book with your Dad? Or your daughter? What were the challenges?
• Doug realized after getting asked these questions about how to raise kids who were financially savvy that this is a book the Financial Independence (FI) community wants to read

Connections

The Book: Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence

 

The Military Guide (this site was sold, again, re-direct works)

Doug's new blog with some great old articles that didn't re-direct.

Carol's Blog