Our Conversation with Tamara Kleinschmidt

Military Family Life

About our guest:

Tamara Kleinschmidt is the Executive Director of the Trenton Military Family Resource Centre.

As a military spouse Tamara experienced the privilege of living across our country and beyond. Over a twenty-six-year span Tamara experienced 11 postings, the final one to Trenton in 2005.

During this period, she completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Political Science, from the Royal Military College of Canada and she and her husband adopted their 3 children, one in New Brunswick and 2 in Ontario.

In this episode we talk to Tamara about:

• how the realities of Military life affected her family’s adoption process,
• how a kind gesture by one Military spouse influenced her outlook on Military life for the next thirty years (for the better),
• her family’s rules for a smooth posting and move,
• what advice she gives to other families considering adoption, and
• what she would do differently if she had it to do it again.

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