to not want threads assuming the age of my child?

[MardyBra]

What does your three year old girl wear?

How many teeth does your 9.34 month old baby have?

Is your 2.891 year old potty trained?

I don't have children of those precise ages.

[MandatoryMongoose]

Could you go and get some?

[MardyBra]

I'm done with small children Mongoose. My eggs are past their sell by date.

[KayHarker1]

But what about the specific concerns I have with my 6.364 year old's night time nappy? Who ever will be able to advise if they don't know the specifics!!

[WilsonFrickett]

But surely people are asking about specific ages because they want age-specific advice

[Pregnantberry]

How are people supposed to get a feeling for if their child is developing at a normal rate if they don't specify an age? You can always reply "when my DC was that age...".

[OpalQuartz]

I don't have children of those precise ages.

Then no need to reply.

[morethanpotatoprints]

Neither do I, OP.
I just wish they'd say 1 or 18 mth, 2, 3,
just talk in whole numbers please. I suppose a 6 month is fair enough as development in babies and toddlers can be different from one 6 month to the next, but over 3 there is no bloody need for it.
What does it matter what others are doing anyway, why start a thread to compare, all kids develop at different times.
If you are worried fair enough say this, just don't make it look like its a competition thing, because it isn't.
Thanks OP

[MardyBra]

"But surely people are asking about specific ages because they want age-specific advice"

But it's the phrasing that gets me. "How many teeth does your x month child have?" leaves me wanting to shout "I don't have an x month child."

Why not: "Is it normal for a 3 yo to be potty trained?"

[ShitOnAStick]

So don't reply then. Yabu.

[MetellaEstMater]

There is a big difference between a child who has just turned two and a 2yo who is almost three, for example, and therefore the specifics are important. Increasingly less so as children grow up I imagine...mine are 2.11 and 27 days so not sure !

[MmeLindor]

YABU not to have posted this in Pedants' Corner, where it belongs.

[jacks365]

They are appealing to parents with dc of the same age. I can't remember how many teeth my dd had at 8 months but at least if she was that age I could check.

[MardyBra]

Debatable point MmeL. I am asking if IABU.

But in fact, I maintain that I'm not BU about the phrasing of the thread titles, so maybe IABU not to have put it in Pedants' Corner, but IANBU to think this way.

[MardyBra]

"They are appealing to parents with dc of the same age."

That's all well and good, but the thread title is telling me that I have DC of that age.

[UriGeller]

My pet hate is the 2.5 thing. So that's 2and a half right?

Then what is 2.11? 2 years 1 month and 3 days? Why so specific?

Just say nearly 3 if you mean 2.853.

[MmeLindor]

I agree that YANBU that it is badly phrased. And it is also pretty useless cause all kids develop at a different rate.

What good does it do me to know that 89% of kids whose mothers answered the thread were walking at 13 months, when my DD still isn't walking? And does a higher proportion of people answer when their kid was advanced?

[undecidedanduncertain]

2.11 means 2 and 11 months :)

[MandatoryMongoose]

Uri, that drives me up the wall a bit too. Part of my brain is busy trying to convert the decimal into months and weeks. No matter that I know it's just shorthand for 2 years 11 months, I can't help it.

[Trills]

YANBU

But it's better than the vague vague vague thread titles

AIBU to be annoyed...?

What do you think?

Is this normal?

[MardyBra]

Yes. Those annoy me too Trills.

[MardyBra]

[mardy emoticon]

[MardyBra]

And anything with light-hearted in the thread title.

[MardyBra]

And anything with TV spoilers.

[Viviennemary]

It's a very long time since mine were small. DD didn't walk till she was 16 months. I was frantic but there was nothing wrong.

[MardyBra]

But did you assume everyone else on MN had a 16 month old child, though Vivienne.