How to avoid the intolerable pressure of the Christmas season

Richard Hogan on how to help kids to learn what’s important this Christmas

Richard Hogan: This Christmas, getting prepared and buying online will be an important feature if you want to avoid intolerable pressure in December.

The countdown to Christmas is on. Once we take down the last of the spooky decorations and consume the last of our neighbours' unwanted chocolate, we can say, without recrimination, ‘Happy Christmas’.

I wouldn’t dare offer that sentiment so early here, but it does seem like it is getting earlier and earlier each year. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older each year, but this Christmas has a feeling of being more chaotic than usual.