Rare Faith Blog

You may or may not know this, but we now have FOUR kids either in college or heading there soon—so how to pay for it is a constant topic in our home. We’re encouraging our kids to get through school w...

Lesson learned from a mishap in the laundry room. Sometimes we live in violation of the principles without knowing it. It’s better...

After my 3 year-old daughter Bethany was discovered face down in our pool, I learned something that helped me see my failures in a wh...

From one of our readers (I'll call her Susan), in a two year-old Facebook thread:

(Original post) October 15, 2014

...I get that you can't make people do things by visualizing it, as explained in Ja...

If you're not as happy as you'd like to be, then better opportunities or circumstances will make you happy, right?

Well… maybe.

But often, those better opportunities and circumstances only come to y...

One of my readers recently asked:
"Can you have more than one goal at one time? Or is it too overwhelming for you and your mind?"

That’s a great question.

The length of my answer reminds me of somet...

In this interview with Annamarie Seidel, Leslie covers the seven laws in the context of parenting, and shares additional details around the Legos story from her book Hidden Treasures: Heavens Aston...

My oldest was probably only four years old when he came to me beaming, proudly announcing that he had tied his shoes.

There they were—laces twisted and looped into tight little mounds, knotted over a...

Nicholeen Peck helped my family many years ago, before we ever met. She was on a reality show on the BBC called "World's Strictest Parents", and I learned some important things from her unusual approa...

A Message to My LDS Friends Who Love the Church

This week, a policy change in the Church’s handbook stated that children of same-sex couples cannot be blessed or baptized until they are 18. The annou...

Success principles activate a power that allows us to co-create with God.

Co-creation—the power to cause things to happen through faith—is a lot like pro-creation—the power to create a child. Both ar...

The following clip metaphorically captures the experience of breaking through a terror barrier (kind of like before and after deciding to home school when my kids were little).

Maybe this video descr...

By Cristie Gardner

For years, I’ve written down my goals—the character traits I wanted to develop, the things I hoped to own, the adventures and projects I dreamed of completing. But at times, I felt...

If you've ever wanted to go independent with the thing you love to do, there's hope. Here's an email I received from someone who didn't know how it would be possible for her, but eventually found her ...

Nicholeen Peck once told me there's a honeymoon stage when you're teaching your children (and yourself) self-government. Looking back, all of my previous posts about my Parenting Transformation Journe...

My Parenting Transformation Journey – Page 19
(Originally posted August 13, 2017)

I’ve been so impressed with the parenting success principles I’ve been learning from Nicholeen Peck, I felt compelled ...

Parenting Transformation Journey – Page 18

This post ends with a win… but maybe not the kind you'd expect. Still, I hope by the end, you'll understand why I'm choosing to count it anyway.

According ...

Parenting Transformation Journey – Page 17
(click here for page 1)

All day yesterday, my 11-year-old son was hoping I’d find time to take him fishing. I had already picked up some hooks and bait the d...