Homeschooling Families and Friends Get a Free Guide to Festive Planning and Frugal Gifting

GRAY, TN, November 20, 2010 (Press-News.org) The staff and friends of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine (TOS) have come together to share their favorite family traditions, recipes, and more by offering the 2010 Digital Holiday Supplement magazine.

Gena Suarez, publisher of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, states: "If you're looking for inspiration to get your holiday spirit revived for the upcoming season of festivities, you've come to the right place. TOS has put together a gorgeous, full-color, digital magazine filled to the virtual brim with traditions-in-the-making.

This is TOS's gift to the homeschooling community, and anyone is welcome to it. The 2010 Digital Holiday Supplement will fulfill your yearnings for fresh and original additions to your long-treasured, family customs and maintain Christ's honored position first and foremost in your celebrations."

The "approximately 100-page digital holiday magazine" is not your typical E-Book but is created in the same high-quality format as TOS's full-color, digital version of its print magazine. Highlighting inspirational and informational articles along with a fabulous line-up of planning, activity, recipe, thrifty gift, and craft ideas, the seasonally rich content makes it a perfect "idea book" to help families begin preparing for the upcoming holidays.

The TOS Digital Holiday Supplement is free. Follow this link to the download page:

http://thehomeschoolmagazine.com/DigitalMag/2010-Thanksgiving&Christmas.html

Readers are encouraged to share it with friends and their supportive email lists, and to hot link it right to their own websites, enabling this Christmas complement to the TOS magazine Winter Issue to reach an estimated 200,000 potential digital readers.

Bursting inside its pages is a wide variety of features. Here's just a small sampling:

• Regional Holidays
• Christmas articles
• Holiday Ideas and Crafts
• Holiday Recipes
• Articles from this year's Expo
• And much more!

Will you bring back old traditions or start some new ones?

Open up a whole new world by discovering how Thanksgiving and Christmas are celebrated in Finland, West Africa, Sweden, and Russia! Create some wonderful holiday crafts and homemade gifts with the children, and find many delicious recipes to serve at your holiday table this year. Feel encouraged and ready for the holidays by reading the warm and inspirational holiday articles.

Christmas is fast approaching. Families can enjoy the process of planning for an unforgettable holiday season with the help of the 2010 Digital Holiday Supplement—the quick-start guide to festive planning and frugal gifting—compliments of TOS.

More about The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
It appears that in the U.S., homeschooling is the fastest-growing form of education, according to independent research conducted by organizations ranging from the National Home Education Research Institute (www.nheri.org), a nonprofit research and educational organization, to the federally funded National Center for Education Statistics (www.nces.ed.gov).

Let's take a look at some of the evidence:

• "Homeschooling grew from 1.7% of the school age population in 1999 to 2.9% in 2007, a 74% relative increase over 8 years," states Dr. Brian D. Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI).

• A 2008 study found that "an estimated 2.0 to 2.5 million K-12 children were home educated in the U.S. during mid-2008," statistics that were also confirmed by NCES.

Gena Suarez, publisher of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, is not at all surprised by the increased popularity of homeschooling: "During the past thirty years, homeschooling families have proven that parents can do a better job than the public school—socially and academically. Homeschooling works; everybody wins."

As the homeschooling movement continues to expand, and as graduates from among their ranks assume positions of leadership and responsibility in the United States, our nation will be watching. Most citizens would agree that our nation is in desperate need of wise, well-educated leaders: men and women of integrity, curiosity, strength, and courage. The fact that homeschooling is the fastest-growing form of education in our country may just offer our nation that hope we're looking for.

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is the leading, Christian, homeschool publication and a trusted source of information worldwide. This approximately 200-page quarterly magazine is packed with important, up-to-date news, useful information, and inspiring content for the enjoyment and interest of homeschooling families. Their mission is to produce a high-quality, Biblically-based magazine that stands alone as a practical resource and introduces relevant products and services to the home educator.

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
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Gray, TN 37615
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