
CMER 2025: Where are we from?

It is with great joy we announce the 2025 Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat.
WHO?
The CMER Team and our plenary speaker, Donna-Jean Breckenridge
Donna-Jean Breckenridge lives with her family in northern New Jersey. She considers herself blessed to be a founding member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory, the creators and sustainers of the AmblesideOnline curriculum. Donna-Jean was involved for many years in church ministry with her pastor-dad, she homeschooled her four children, and she now homeschools two of her five grandchildren. She is a frequent public speaker, writer (“This Country of Ours – Annotated, Edited, and Updated” and “Six Voices, One Story – The Heart of AmblesideOnline”), and audiobook narrator – yet she considers her most important roles that of Mom, Mom-Mom, and friend. Her heart’s desire is to encourage others that God is safe to trust, no matter what.
WHEN?
Friday, January 31, to Sunday, February 2, 2025
WHERE?
Colorado Spring, CO
The Hideaway
More information will be available in September.
Registration will open on October 1st, 2024.
Don Rhymer’s session – ‘The Way of the Will’ and a New Parenting Book – will happen during Session D in place of The Fifth Teacher.
John and Cindy Raquet wrote a book decades in the making as a practical guide to fill in the gaps of a Biblical parenting philosophy. Much of this practical guide was written to systematically help parents “who struggle with teaching their children to respectfully obey them” as Scripture commands. It turns out, much of their practical guide resonates with Charlotte Mason’s principles. This session will unpack how many of Miss Mason’s principles, like “The Way of the Will,” intersect with the Raquets’ practical advice on basic parenting, especially for children 10 and under.