Ask any four-year-old why the shepherds followed that star and the answer is likely to be entertaining. "They brought Jesus food after a fairy came down and said to Mary, 'You are going to have a baby'," said one this weekend. "No, I think they took him the gold he wanted," corrected his six-year-old brother.
Details of the events celebrated at Christmas can be rather blurred for young children, many of whom now spend as much school time studying Hindu, Muslim and Jewish customs and beliefs as they do the tenets of the Christian faith....