This group shares what they have learned through their experiences of home education. There is no need to re-invent the wheel. Share what you know and others will share what they know. Successes, triumphs and yes, even failures will be shared. Curriculum ideas, free worksheets, great web sites, parenting tips, travel opportunities and group field trips. News on education and current events will also be shared to help you.
Our goal is to strengthen the family and create a gospel centered environment. Parents are naturally the child's best teachers, they understand their children better than anyone else, their personality, their interests, their strengths and weaknesses. For those parents who feel strongly about a Christ centered education, educating at home can be very rewarding for both the child and for family unity. Build your education around the Savior and His teachings. David O. McKay "Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish the desired end. Character is not the result of chance work but of continuous right thinking and right acting. . . . True education seeks, then to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men, combined with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love -- men and women who prize truth, justice, wisdom, benevolence, and self-control as the choicest acquisitions of a successful life. . . . It is regrettable, not to say deplorable, that modern education so little emphasizes these fundamental elements of true character. The principal aim of many of our schools and colleges seems to be to give the students purely intellectual attainments and to give but passing regard to the nobler and more necessary development along moral lines." (Gospel Ideals p. 440-441)