{"id":9248,"date":"2021-05-03T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2021-04-30T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:12:38","slug":"help-your-student-budget-for-next-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2021\/05\/03\/help-your-student-budget-for-next-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Help your student budget for next semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your student&#8217;s college career will set them on a path toward independence. They won&#8217;t have you monitoring their time and responsibilities like they may have in high school. This also means you may not be monitoring their finances as closely either.<\/p>\n<p>Encourage your student to begin looking at their finances for next semester using a budgeting tool. There are many budgeting tools online that can help your student get ahead of their finances. We offer a <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.missouriwestern.edu\/businessoffice\/budgetws\/budgetws.asp\">budget worksheet<\/a> that includes budget items specific to ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ Western.<\/p>\n<p>Completing a budget for the semester sooner than later will help them decide whether they should work more over the summer so they can focus on their studies in the semester, or if they need to pick up a few extra hours at their part time job once they&#8217;re back on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your student&#8217;s college career will set them on a path toward independence. They won&#8217;t have you monitoring their time and responsibilities like they may have in high school. This also means you may not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9250,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions\/9250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}