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.

Could you go and get some?

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

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!!

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

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...".

I don't have children of those precise ages.

Then no need to reply.

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

"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?"

So don't reply then. Yabu.

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 !

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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?

2.11 means 2 and 11 months :)

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.

YANBU

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

AIBU to be annoyed...?

What do you think?

Is this normal?

Yes. Those annoy me too Trills.

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And anything with light-hearted in the thread title.

And anything with TV spoilers.

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.

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