To think half birthdays are lame

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My little one has a birthday on 18th of Dec and a friend of mine suggested doing a half birthday in summer so he doesn't have to deal with joint presents and the whole Christmas malarkey.

AIBU to disagree? I don't feel the whole summer birthday vibe as he popped out on the 18th on December and not in June. Plus last year people did a really great job about separating his bday from Christmas and he did get two lots of presents. Her 2 boys are born in January and she throws them summer bday parties.

What do you think?

I wouldn't celebrate it, but when DS was born we thought we might adopt a policy of giving him a smaller gift at Christmas/birthday time, as he gets stuff from other people too, and get him a big something at the 6 month point. When the child starts to need a new bike, or wants a special toy, and you say, "wait until…" this could mean waiting ages and ages, if their b'day and Xmas are in the same week.

Having said that, the half birthday point slipped by last month without us even noticing...

I think it's grabby and werid.I speak as someone who has a birthday two weeks after Christmas.

Ds has a birthday New Year's Eve. He wanted to paint balling and none of his friends were up for the idea in December/ January so he had a summer birthday party recently. We didn't have a birthday cake or expect presents. Ds had a lovely time.

I don't really care if anyone thinks that moving a paintball party to summer is lame.

We're having DH's half birthday celebration this weekend. Having a new year birthday always sucked for him, so we have half birthdays for significant birthdays.

Just ruins the whole concept of birthdays
Just like the presents for siblings idea.

It's a form of fantasy thinking that is quite eyeroll inducing. "Let's all pretend" that facts are not facts so that Conner or Imogene can be properly feted instead of, god forbid, understand that the world has other concerns besides celebrating their existence.

My friend does a summer party for a Dec bday and I think is odd.
I cant get my had round celebrating a bday 6 months after its happened.
I would rather do a party at the start of Dec when people still have a bit of spare time.

DH and I have the same birthday, so we have a half birthday as well. We get one another a token gift, usually something funny, and have a night out.

So if two siblings had the same birthday, or a child had a Christmas birthday and never saw their friends etc on their birthday, I would do it.

My brother did this as a child as his birthday is 25th December. He has never had a birthday party on his real birthday, ever. We used to do a 25th June party for him instead - he would get presents from family on his real bitrthday and not again in June, but every kid wants the party with their friends.

My DD is a Christmas Day baby and although we toyed with the idea of a 'Summer Un-Birthday' party it just hasn't happened. We held her first real birthday party (she's 5) on Dec 4th last year so it seemed grabby to do another 6 months later and mean to make her skip this Dec one, just so she can have one in the summer iyswim?

She loves her 'Birthmas'! We do Christmas until after lunch then a birthday supper in the evening with cake and balloons and everything. Friends and family are invited to drop in from 6pm.

If you're going to do a half birthday, do it from birth!