To think a child born on the 5th august isn’t that young for their school year

I’m near 70, my b’day is beginning of July, I still remember being 1 of the youngest in my year as a bad thing. My eldest was last days of Aug, I so wish I’d known i could have let that child be in the year below.

lol in my daughters class of 27, 9 were August babies (including her) and 6 of them are younger than her!

You’re wrong

About 92% of kids will be older so I’m not sure if YABU or you’re just mathematically literate.

Your average class is 30 children, some are less
A year has 365 days
3 weeks is 21 days
365- 21 = 344
I'm not going to work the probabilities, but given that the probability of a child being born on any one of the 365 days of the year is equal, I'd say when you are looking at only 30 days when kids are born (maybe less if there are less than 30 kids in the class, or there's one or more that share a birthday) the probability that all the other 29 children will have been born in the 344 days before those last three weeks, and no others will have been born in 21 days after, is really quite high.

YABU

Not convinced at all a lot of people actively try to avoid August; it’s the most popular month for babies.

Although bizarrely in my DC class of 30 there are 10 in December and similar in August

My DD was born at the end of June and is the youngest and smallest child in her class, out of 30, there’s one other child who doesn’t tower over her.

But she’s happy, thriving and gradually catching up to the barely older kids, some of which are actually behind her in reading and verbal communication (reception year).

My dd is the same. Top groups for everything and her reception and now year one teachers have both said you’d never know she was the youngest, you’d think she was one of the oldest.

Being the youngest doesn’t mean much for a lot of children. They are all different.

My son is October born and he struggled.

They are objectively very young in the English school year. 3 weeks is hardly a long time.

Mine is 28th August. She’s 5 and in year one.

It’s no issue for her academically or socially. But she’s the youngest in her class by 3 months. And she’s the youngest in her year in the borough (dh works for the LA in education and her name came up in a meeting, he was like,” yeah, that one’s mine!” So that’s how we know).

There could be 29 kids younger than them, sure. But it is far, far more likely that there will be 29 older than them

What a nonsense thread

Of course they’ll be one of the very youngest. Mine is the 18th and 2nd youngest!

I was born 16 August…and still consistently performed in the top echelon of my year. I didn’t have tutors (though I did have a bit of helicopter/tiger cross mum 😂). I had friends in the year below and my best friends were in my year, but with Sept/Oct birthdays so nearly a year older than me. None of us really saw a difference, either in academic performance or interpersonal skills. I often think that ‘XYZ is disadvantaged because they’re younger than some of the others in their year’ is a bit of a cop out - it’s an excuse, really. In my year, abilities were spread across all birth months.

They are very young. So much so friend who’s dd was similar age had to have the school uniform made for her as non would fit.

Only a couple of weeks before starting school she had been a 3 year old.
You can’t get school uniform for age 3

Even the smallest size skirt was trailing on the floor.
DS had problems getting trousers to fit him. For some reason boys uniform was made for a chunky and very tall 4 year old boy and DS was neither chunky, or tall or 4 years old when we went shopping for his uniform

Of course they are!

My son is 14th August and he is the youngest

my eldest is June and he’s one of the youngest think there’s only 5/6 kids after him

My son is an early ish August birthday. Both he and my daughter had children (oddly also siblings) with 1/2 Sept birthdays. So very nearly a whole year older.

YABU

Well of course they are young, it’s just like saying an end of Sept isn’t that old for the year 😂🙈
My DD is an Aug baby, 28th, however that doesn’t mean that any other August babies are significantly younger than her…. All their peers are still some 11 months older than them!

Lol. My eldest's birthday is in September. She's nearly a full year older than her August classmates.

Surely it depends when they start school? They may be the youngest or one of the eldest . Who cares

Of course they will be one of the youngest? Statistically they are very likely to be in the bottom 5-10% of the year. This is one of the strangest AIBU that I’ve seen.

Why do you feel like this could be an opinion and how are you so invested in countering this fact that you have gone out of your way to pose it to AIBU?

My August born never felt behind or different - and she wasn’t. Brighter than most who were older. We never made an issue of it and school never mentioned it. Why would they? She could do as much as the others and certainly was confident. Never sporty but we aren’t an especially sporty family. Genetics mean something! She’s more musical. DH is late August birthday and he definitely was not a candidate for holding back.

Of course it can be noticeable but now dc start school at the same time (DH and me had 1 term in YR) they can certainly “catch up” quickly. DD was reading well by end of YR after a January start. Some September starts were still struggling. Intelligence has something to do with it. I think lots of “evidence” goes years back when Sept starts for everyone weren’t the norm. Some schools even had their summer borns in as late at Whitsun half term! No wonder they struggled.

What's important to you about this?