Online Advent Calendars
By Robin Nobles

When I was a child, my mother always bought my brother and me advent calendars as a way to mark off the days until Christmas. We loved opening the little windows to see what picture, saying, or scripture was found underneath.

When I had children of my own, my mother carried on the tradition, and my children experienced that same thrill.

With the Internet, we now have online advent calendars, some of which are really unusual and certainly worth a visit.

For example, at Tate's Online Advent Calendar site, you can read a story that has new installments added every day. Your children will love the antics of Tate, the black cat, and they'll want to visit the site each day to listen to more of Tate's Christmas story. http://www.advent-calendars.com

At the World Wide Christmas Calendar, each day your children can click on a numbered package to read a story written by a child in another country as he or she explains how they celebrate Christmas. http://www.algonet.se/~bernadot/christmas/calendar.html

Try to spend a little time each day with your children and visit these unique sites and read the stories. I'm sure both you and the children will enjoy getting away from the hectic frenzy of the holiday season by reading the stories and just being together.

Robin Nobles with Search Engine Workshops teaches SEO strategies the "stress free" way through hands-on, search engine marketing workshops (http://www.searchengineworkshops.com) in locations across the globe and online search engine marketing courses (http://www.onlinewebtraining.com). Visit the World Resource Center, a new networking community for search engine marketers. (http://www.sew-wrc.com) Copyright 2003 Robin Nobles. All rights reserved.