Voices: I’m a dad, and the Mog Christmas special causes one big problem for parents like me
When you’re three, an annual tradition might as well be a thousand-year astrological convergence. My son wakes up every day and runs through a mental flow chart. Is it Halloween? My birthday? Your birthday? He’s still trying to decide whether Christmas is a time or a place. The answer is neither, of course. It’s a state of mind.
One tradition he benefits from, if unknowingly, is the big budget Christmas ’s animation. Between ’s efforts like or , and the unstoppable yuletide, he spends the entire year watching them over and over again… which means so do I. This means I have a more than normal investment in Channel 4’s adaptation of Judith Kerr’s 1976 children’s classic
