Family mission statement workbook with values sorts, motto and rules

Family mission statement pages for parents and children who want to name, together, what their family is all about. This undated workbook has 20 pages: a values sort for grown-ups and another for kids, a brainstorm, three fill-in templates, a poster you all sign, a motto page, house rules, traditions, goals and a review for the end of the year. It arrives as an instant PDF download in US Letter and A4, and nothing is shipped.

The result is something you can hang on the wall and come back to, a quiet reminder of who you want to be as a family.

How this family mission statement workbook guides you

Grown-ups choose from 36 values and shrink their picks down to a ranked top five. Kids color circles beside 14 easy values such as kind, brave and fair. That way every voice is written down before any decision is made. Six brainstorm questions and three templates help shape a first draft, and a feedback table lets each person share what they love and what they would tweak.

Once your family mission statement feels right, write it on the poster page, sign it as a family and put it up. The pages for rules, traditions, goals and a monthly check-in then help you live by it day to day, rather than writing it once and forgetting it.

Who this values workbook is for

• Parents who want to raise children around clear values the whole family shares
• Newlyweds and couples starting a family who want to talk through what matters most
• Families in a season of change, perhaps moving house, welcoming a baby or starting school, who want to begin again side by side
• Homeschool and faith-based families who value intentional time together, and anyone who likes thinking through big questions on paper

Design and printing details

• Minimal, elegant pages in white with soft blush pink accents that keep ink use low
• Wide margins all around, so home printers will not trim the edges
• Portrait layout in US Letter and A4
• Undated, so you can begin whenever you are ready and come back to it each year
• Kid friendly pages for children who read, or who can fill them in with a grown-up
• Ready for a binder, a clipboard or spiral binding at a print shop

Inside the family mission statement workbook: 20 pages

1. 1Cover page with an index and a place for your family name and the date you begin
2. 2Start here, with four tips for teamwork, a plan for five sessions with page numbers and dates, and ground rules for your conversations
3. 3Our family snapshot, a 7 row table of names, ages, loves and superpowers, plus where you live, your family in three words, an ordinary weekday, a perfect weekend and what is going on right now
4. 4What makes our family us, eight prompts ranging from the things that always make you laugh and favorite foods to inside jokes and a memory that is so very you
5. 5Values sort for grown-ups, 36 values to tick, cut down to ten, then ranked to a top five, with why number one matters, a value from your own childhood and a value you would like to add
6. 6Values sort for kids, 14 child friendly values with a short meaning for each and three circles to color to show how much each one matters (super important, important or a little), plus the child's favorite value and how they live it
7. 7Our top five family values, the values that came up most often, a table showing what each one looks and sounds like and what it does not, how you picked them and one value to keep practicing
8. 8Family strengths, 16 strengths to tick, your biggest three, a time you put them to use, what you appreciate about every person and one strength to grow
9. 9Mission brainstorm, six guiding questions from how you want to treat one another to what you hope the kids will remember, plus words you love
10. 10Mission statement templates, three fill-in-the-blank versions with space for your own wording and a sample to get ideas flowing
11. 11Writing our mission, where a rough draft gets notes from every family member in a feedback table, followed by a revised version and a quick three point test of whether it really sounds like you
12. 12Family mission poster for your final statement, with your family name, five values, your motto, six lines for signatures and the date
13. 13Our family motto, six sample mottos, a brainstorm, favorite words pulled from your mission, the final motto, what it means and when and where you will use it
14. 14Our family rules, In this family, we, with 10 numbered rules, the value each rule protects, what happens when someone forgets and eight lines to sign
15. 15Traditions we want, listing customs worth keeping, ones carried over from the parents' childhoods, a table for brand new ones, weekly, birthday and holiday rituals, ways to give back and traditions you are ready to drop
16. 16Family goals for the year across six areas (together time, home, health, learning, giving and money) plus one big family goal
17. 17Goal action plan with the goal, the value behind it, why it matters, an 8 row table of steps with who, by when and done, likely obstacles and how you will celebrate
18. 18Monthly values check-in, a table listing your five values, where each showed up and a 1 to 5 score, plus moments you are proud of, do-overs, how the goals are going and a corner for kids
19. 19Family meeting notes for appreciations, topics, decisions, who does what, something fun this week and when you meet next
20. 20Yearly family review gathering the year's best memories, firsts, goals met and hard times you came through, a 1 to 10 mission scale, a check on whether the mission still suits you and a letter to your future family

What you will download

• Family Mission Statement & Values Workbook, US Letter PDF (20 pages)
• Family Mission Statement & Values Workbook, A4 PDF (20 pages)
• Read Me First, a short printing guide (PDF)

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know

• The workbook is a PDF designed to be printed. It is not a digital planner with clickable links, though you can open it in most note taking apps and write on it.
• This is a digital download only. Nothing will be sent by mail.
• Printed colors may differ slightly from your screen.
• Licensed for personal use. Please do not share, resell or pass the files on.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If a file will not open or print as it should, email us and we will help quickly.
• This workbook is a tool for family reflection and organizing. It is not counseling or therapy and does not replace advice from a qualified family professional.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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