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Dancingmonkey87 · 2018-04-09T12:41:15+00:00

Ds is born on February the 8th and without fail every year Sil makes abig song and dance about her dd celebrating her “half birthday” on ds birthday. (she also celebrates her dd birthday on the original date) Aibu to think she’s batshit to hijack her DN birthday?

thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 09/04/2018 15:26

This thread has made me realise that my half birthday is on Christmas Day.

Maybe I should use it as an excuse to get more presents?

MrsHathaway · 09/04/2018 15:49

More half presents, perhaps. Half a pound of Godiva truffles? Half-carat diamond earrings?

I'm reminded that at secondary school my best friend and I had birthdays on each other's half birthdays (and obviously vice versa). We thought that was cool.

LaLaLolly · 09/04/2018 15:56

Is this like an Unbirthday from Alice in Wonderland?
We do that in my house for fun. No presents, but obviously a great reason for a cake.

GabsAlot · 09/04/2018 16:02

can i ask whyb people even acknowledge it

first of all youre not the queen

second its a date 6 months after your birthday-thats all its means fuck all

get over youselves

Bramble71 · 09/04/2018 16:04

Never heard of anything so ridiculous in my life. Just another excuse for more presents?

MrsTWH · 09/04/2018 16:55

I have three separate friends that post “happy birthday DC!!” messages over FB. Every. Single. Month. For all of their children!! One has 4 DC. That’s 48 “happy birthday!” messages a year just for them.

I have unfollowed them before I say something regrettable!

MonaChopsis · 09/04/2018 17:07

We celebrate DD's half birthday... Her grandparents live overseas and can never be there for her actual birthday, but are always here during summer. She gets a special day out, and last year a half cake just for fun. No presents, no party.

She likes it, they like it, I don't really care what everyone else thinks!

Am totally going to pinch the 9 3/4 day mentioned above, that's genius

Birdsgottafly · 09/04/2018 17:09

Everyone I know that does a half Birthday, says no presents. They are always don't for December, Boxing Day or 5th November etc Birthdays.

Its more a half Birthday party, than a Birthday. It busts means that the child's friends are more likely to come, than to a barbecue.

TittyGolightly · 09/04/2018 18:06

can i ask whyb people even acknowledge it

Because we want to.

first of all youre not the queen

I don’t acknowledge the Queen. Why do you?

second its a date 6 months after your birthday-thats all its means fuck all

To you. And that’s fine. It means something to others. You probably do xmas. We don’t. I don’t rant and rave at you for doing it.

get over youselves

Right back atcha.

My daughter’s half birthday doughnut ain’t going nowhere! 🖕🏻

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Dancingmonkey87 · 09/04/2018 18:26

TittyGolightlyI don’t get half birthdays it just seems abit OTT as I say this as someone who’s birthday is two weeks after Christmas I could understand if a
Child was born on Christmas. What gets my goat though is Sil trying to over shadow and out do a child’s who’s actual birthday it is.

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LeighaJ · 09/04/2018 18:30

No this isn't a thing and she sounds a bit cray cray.

If she only started the half birthday thing after your son was born and she did the math, then that is extremely petty of her.

ForalltheSaints · 09/04/2018 18:34

Only for Paddington Bear I hope, no-one else. If the Paper that Supported the Blackshirts reads this, they might do an article about it, and then card sellers will catch on.

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Dancingmonkey87 · 09/04/2018 18:37

ForalltheSaints cars sellers do birthday cards for dogs so anything’s possible for half birthdays 😂

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Achoopichu · 09/04/2018 18:37

Omg there are kids suffering to the extreme, and a report today that modern slavery is what is keeping us in our over indulged manner, and people think it’s important to celebrate half birthdays, as well as the greed of the normal birthday, Easter , Halloween , Xmas, Get a grip ffs it’s monstrous.

Katedotness1963 · 09/04/2018 18:40

My eldest was born on my "half birthday". We joke about it on our birthdays but we don't celebrate the half birthday.

KateMcCallisterHAmom · 09/04/2018 18:49

Your SIL trying (trying! She has failed!) to overshadow your child's birthday is a totally different thing to normal parents who see no harm in a small extra cake six months after (or before!) their child's birthday.

We do a half cake! It's no big deal. No presents, no party - just a cute excuse to have a cake and make my little DC happy. Sure, they are hopefully happy every day, but we like it, my DC like our family tradition and we are not overshadowing anyone.
I could potentially have had second DC on DC1's half birthday had she been early, but as it was she was pretty late so it didn't happen. If it had, I would have scrapped the half birthday thing. As it is, we just enjoy an extra (half) cake, the DCs feel special for an extra day of the year (a year is a long time in the eyes of a young child) and I know my eldest (youngest a little too young to have gotten it so far, but will by her next half birthday) absolutely loves his half birthday day!

TittyGolightly · 09/04/2018 18:54

Omg there are kids suffering to the extreme, and a report today that modern slavery is what is keeping us in our over indulged manner, and people think it’s important to celebrate half birthdays, as well as the greed of the normal birthday, Easter , Halloween , Xmas, Get a grip ffs it’s monstrousX

We don’t do Halloween, easter or Xmas. A half birthday doughnut is therefore positively saintly.

TittyGolightly · 09/04/2018 18:57

Dancing my DH has a new year birthday. He has a party on his half birthday for significant birthdays. We downplay all of the things that people normally go mad for: xmas, easter so I don’t think acknowledging the turning of “and a half” with a doffing doughnut for a small child is that OTT really.

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Dancingmonkey87 · 09/04/2018 19:03

TittyGolightly To some people it would appear over the top, I fall into the category it’s nto something I would do but each to their own but in this case it’s Sil being rather petty over a children’s birthday

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RedRedBluee · 09/04/2018 19:05

It was my “half birthday” a couple of days ago.
When I realised I said to myself in my head “oh it’s my birthday in exactly 6 months” and then went back to whatever I was doing.

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 09/04/2018 19:09

I would be tempted to wish her DC a very merry unbirthday whenever I saw them.

I quite often used to have two birthdays from 8-17 though; my birthday was almost always in school exam season so DM would keep cards and an unexciting present for me to open on the day and I'd get to have my presents and cake about a week early so I was focused in exam week.

confusedandemployed · 09/04/2018 19:10

I usually let DD have a little treat on her "half birthday". It's become a bit of a tradition because ExDH and I have birthdays exactly 6 months apart so we've always teased each other that we share birthdays.

KateMcCallisterHAmom · 09/04/2018 19:12

Well exactly, DancingMonkey - it's not about half birthdays in general - as per your thread title, but about your SIL being a twit.

Achoopichu, but you could say that about anything fun or good that you do. OMG, there are people starving - yet you had breakfast AND ;lunch today!
I think it's important to try and make my DC happy, and if a small half cake makes them smile once a year (as well as a whole cake on their birthday) then great, it's a small thing I can easily rustle up for them. I make them myself and they probably cost £3 in flour, butter and sugar.

MrsHathaway · 09/04/2018 20:01

Example half birthday cake (heavily cropped, so please excuse image quality) - lime drizzle iirc.

I'm really surprised that anyone could begrudge a small child such a minor ceremony.

Lacucuracha · 09/04/2018 20:08

I remember your thread about the list, OP.

She is completely batshit. I hope you're not abiding by lists? I