CMP Review 2025-07-29

July 29, 2025

I remember when I first read For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay. I was electrified. There before my eyes was a picture of something wonderful, something beautiful. A way of education that could bring life to my children and life to my family.

Amy Fiedler remembers the moment she first read For the Children’s Sake. She couldn’t put the book down. She too was electrified. It was a book that would change her life. How many of us have a similar story?

After inspiration comes action. We have a beautiful picture in mind of where we want to be. We are determined to master the details, the elements of a Charlotte Mason education that will get us there. The hope for the future keeps us going.

But somewhere along the way most of us run into problems and doubts. Amy Fiedler sure did. It seemed to be an insurmountable obstacle in her path to achieve that wonderful educational life that Susan Schaeffer Macaulay talked about. The details didn’t seem to be working.

Amy tells the story of what happened next in her powerful and moving talk entitled “The Other Side of All Doubt.” She got to the other side. How did she get there, and what did she find? Her talk was recorded earlier this month at the Living Education Retreat. You can hear it now here.

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