Christmas-2020 Issue of the Magazine is Out!
Three months on and here is another post-lockdown issue of M&D Magazine.
Christmas is in the air. Traditional family gatherings are up in the air. And, of course, this year like never before we want to spend the festivities together with auntie Beth, all five cousins, their spouses and children. Okay, forget auntie Beth, or better still, remember how boring and annoying it was last year. What about your mum and dad? Will they share Christmas pudding and play board games with your kids this December?
Hopefully by the time our readers get this edition of M&D Magazine, our government will get around to deciding what we can and can’t do this festive season. But whatever the official dos and don’ts are going to be, these winter festivities won’t be the same. Get some advice on how to make it fun and memorable nevertheless following ideas of a mum of two from Manchester and thoughts of a dad of one toddler from Stockport.
Those of us who have kids at school know only too well what a roller-coaster it has been these last few months with isolations, quarantines and distancing. Hard as it’s been for parents, we also wanted to spare a thought for the teachers and school communities trying to make it work. We’ve taken the opportunity to chat with some of them to find out about trials and successes of the autumn term and preparations for festive fun with a difference. After all as one of our readers said ‘different doesn’t mean worse, it just means different”.