Focusing on the festive presence of the holiday season

Jen Hogan looks at how we can help our children engage in the true meaning of Christmas by helping others and focusing on presence, not presents.

The decorations are in all the shops. Festive tunes are being played on loop and the wheels of consumerism turn ever more rapidly as December 25 draws closer.

It may be the most magical time of the year but in the midst of such materialism the true meaning of Christmas can easily be overlooked.