Hi! We're the Burnett Family, and we decided to home school our children back in 2004. What a great time we have had since then! We've had some minor and sometimes seemingly huge trails, but the road ahead is bright, and we'll make it together as a family! Isn't that what home school is all about? The Family.
In 2007 I had the opportunity to fly out to Utah to attend an LDS Home school conference. I came home armed with a dream; a dream for my family, for myself, and for our LDS home school community right here in Brandon, FL. I have worked hard since then to implement those ideas. My marriage, my children, and even I seem to be less burdened by unrealistic pressures, and better, our desire to learn improved dramatically. It was a miracle!
Here is our families mission statement, goals, and vision.
Mission Statement: The purpose of our home school is to help each child discover their place, purpose, and mission that God has for them in the Great Plan of Happiness. We do this by nourishing the whole child; spiritually, physically, emotionally, academically, and mentally. The gospel of Jesus Christ is our vehicle to get us there with our focus being on the Book of Mormon, and following the prophet.
Our Goal: To have each child gain a solid foundation in Christ in which to build. We desire each boy to serve a mission, attend the temple, and become a husband and father. We desire for each girl to delight in womanhood by understanding her role as co-creator with God, to attend the temple and be sealed to a worthy man and become a wife and mother. - What JOY!
Our Vision: A family that keeps the commandments, and when we struggle to repent, forgive, and help one another in our goal of Eternal Life. To be examples of righteousness to an amoral world. Promoters of peace, being wise yet harmless ( Alma 18:22) as we prepare the earth for the Lord’s second coming. Searching out truth where ever we may find it, and promoting the great struggle of freedom in which we valiantly fought in the pre-existence. Never to abandon God, family, or the Constitution but to stand strong and immovable. And when we fail, to love each other anyway!
We don’t pretend to have it figured out, but when we put this together we thought we should aim high. We still do.
President Spencer W. Kimball said “This mortal life is the time to prepare to meet God, which is our first responsibility. Having already obtained our bodies, which become the permanent tabernacles for our spirits through the eternities, now we are to train our bodies, our minds, and our spirits….We have this life of limited years in which to learn of God, to become the masters of our own destiny and secondly, we have this life plus eternities to learn of the earth and the things thereon, and to accumulate secular knowledge which will help make us gods, which is our destiny.
“Peter and John had little secular learning, being termed ignorant. But Peter and John knew the vital things of life; that God lives and that the crucified, resurrected Lord is the Son of God. They knew the path to eternal life. This they learned in the few decades of their mortal life. This exaltation meant godhood for them and creation of worlds with eternal increase for which they would probably need, eventually, a total knowledge of the sciences. But this fact escapes many: Peter and John had only decades to learn and do the spiritual but have already about nineteen centuries in which to learn the secular or the geology of the earth, the zoology and physiology and psychology of the creatures of the earth.”
May God bless us in the effort. (So far He has!)
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