to suggest that age-related films should be based on the school year of the child not actual age?

[Pebbleonabeach1]

My DD is August child. All her life she has been expected to do what children up to 11 months older than her are doing with no allowance for her younger age (start school, sports competitions, tests, SATs, focus days at school, PHSE sessions, school trip) so why on earth is it deemed that she cannot go into a 12A film with her already 12 year old class mates without me being present? I realise this is the law but am I alone in thinking this is unfair.

And yes I realise now IWBU to have 2 August born children!!

and of course, a growing number of children do not go to school at all

I think the thing about Child Benefit continuing until 19 if they are in full-time education is meant to make it line up with while they are financially dependent on you, which is related to going-to-school more than it is related to calendar age.

If the school have organised the visit to the cinema, they should have picked a film that in age appropriate for the whole class.

If its just your dd and her friends seeing a movie, its tough, but thems the breaks.

Bruffin I have two October borns... there's a bit of unfairness at either end of the spectrum isn't there?!

Our school only allow U films. Even if PG's are appropriate (its primary so no 12 yr olds). No one gets excluded that way, though sometimes I do feel a little grrrrrrr that they watch nothing but films in the last week of term, I'd rather be able to have the kids at home for that week, but again, that would be unfair for others!

child benefit up to 19 is only for certain college courses though dd left school at 18 and because her course was a higher course her CB stopped even though she is still living at home , well thats how it works in scotland anyway ,

She just has to say she's 12! Mountain out of a molehill.

My dd is a late January birthday and in Scotland we can defer Jan/Feb birthdays. Being a dec birthday that being younger than all my friends was hard. Dd is deferred so she will probably be the first out of her friends to do things unlike had she gone to school a year earlier. It's the way life works and we just have to help them through it.

They do sometimes check IDs for 12A films, but it's hit and miss. DS is the youngest of his friends (August born) but is tall and looks much older so was not challenged about going to see 12A films when he was still 11.

A few months ago he and a group of friends, all at least 13, went to see the last Harry Potter film, but one girl was challenged and didn't have ID (not many 13-year-olds take their passport to the cinema) so they all ended up not going.