to give ds a half birthday?

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Ds birthday is a few days before xmas. Wanted to give him a party last year (local leisure centre with bouncy castle and face painting) but because of the time of year it was impossible (late xmas shopping/other people too busy etc) and someone suggested a half birthday party, which would be at end of June. Quite fancy it as dont want ds missing out because I decided March was a good month for a quickie AIBU?

ds has his birthday on 23/12. We always do a party for him the second Saturday in December, we always gets lots of attendees etc, he will be 6 this year. We do book the venue etc well in advance though.

I dont think yabu at all but personally, ds loves having his birthday at Christmas time, he thinks its great fun and would be most put out if we had his party in June!

YANBU

Everyone in our house has half birthday celebrations :-)

Half-birthdays: There are x4 in August, x 1 in November and x2 in December. We have no other reason for doing this apart from we like cake :-)

It is a tradition started in this house, for our family and I don't/didnt know anyone else who partook but feel free to join the club!!! Enjoy :-). Your DC will still have their official day and if it is good enough for the Queen.....

But do you have the half birthday in the summer after or before their actual birthday?

YANBU - If you want to do it, go for it.

My brother's birthday is on Boxing Day and we never did the half birthday celebration. I think my mum and dad thought about it, but he has never known any differently and doesn't mind. No-one has ever gotten him a joint birthday/Christmas present and we have always made an effort to make it a special day for him - we all love a get together and his wife loves having informal house parties so has taken up the mantle now so that my parents don't have to do it.

We were always very lucky, though, that our families live very close to one another so Boxing Day was celebrated as my brother's birthday and as a chance to see people we haven't seen Christmas day - we'd have a massive birthday tea and it was a lot of fun - we stopped doing it after his 18th as he wanted to go out drinking etc. I used to get really jealous as EVERYONE came to see him as they had the time and were off work

DD has a friend whose birthday is just after Christmas. She always has a half birthday party in the summer so they can take advantage of their huge garden/forest and so that all her friends who go away at Christmas to see relatives can make it as well.

It's always worked really well.

DD was born on 23 Dec. So far (she's only 3) we've just had little tea-party gatherings at our house. We tend to save putting up Christmas decorations until Christmas Eve, it's one of our traditions.

So far people seem to have been sensitive to the joint present thing.

I am not sure how other children would find it when they are old enough to know 5/6 etc. They will think he is younger as at that age party is birthday. Having said that a June party is more flexible. I think whatever you do you need to stick with it, otherwise people will think you are trying to get an extra party in. Would be fine to change though when parties get smaller around 7 or 8. We usually do something like nice meal, cake for their half birthdays, but only immediate family (their birthdays are feb and sept).

My birthday falls a week before christmas, so was always the school chrismas party and no one available for my parties. My mum always said i should half a party in the summer to make up for it but icome summer Every year it never happened (amd my mums the loveliest person, probably forgot/thought id forgotten). :(

Make sure you do it if you promise it!

My biggest bugbear was joint birthday/christmas cards, in a christmas card!! You cant put that on the mantle and cpunt it as a birthday card!! ...a few 'joint' presents here, but mostly people giving me just one or the other, except immediate family where i got ywo sepeeate gifts.

summer after bday ! Or whenever really but we have it then as it half way through the year ??

Damn ipod typos...

We've been thinking of doing this too.
Dd has a Jan 2nd birthday, no one wants to come, it's still school holidays and we are all partied out.
She wants a Pool party like some other friends had. I was thinking in July. Cake and Ice cream.