Do you measure your children in metric (m/cm) or imperial (ft/in)?

[EdtheBear]

I was in M&S and noticed the new children's coat hangers only showed Age & Height in ft / ins.

I have a short child who I shop for based on height rather than age. My initial reaction was wtf We haven't taught ft/ins in schools for 40 years, so current generation of mum's and a fair percentage of grandparents will not have been taugh ft/ins. I'll assume they are thinking we don't need cm as that's an EU thing.

So do parents measure their children in cm or ft, am I unusual?
AIBU to think they should keep with the times and keep the cm obvious on children's clothing?

I measure in cm. Isn't hard to convert if you need it.

I'm 33 and always use feet and inches. Do you tell people you're 168cm or 5ft6 when they ask? I measure my son in inches because it's what the percentile charts go by we have.

Feet and inches every time. CM mean fuck all to me. Same as weight. Pounds and ounces. The DC learn metric at school but both use imperial for weights and measures at home.

Both.
Their red books are in metric. But I think in imperial.

Both

I measure everything in feet and inches. Don't have a clue when people say measurements in cm haha.

Cm and kg for weight only because that’s what the hospital use!

Metric. Weigh them in kg too. I'm science-y though, and have worked in NHS.

I think you’re out of the ordinary if you use cm. Most British people use imperial measurements for height and weight. The NHS red book uses metric but it means nothing to a lot of people so the HV tells you what it equates to in imperial.

Everything is Hands in our house.

For my kids - metric, because that's what hospital/doctor uses, and my kids are titchy and I can't be bothered with measuring in ounces. When they are teens I imagine I will be thinking in imperial.

For me - both. Always used to be imperial, until I needed medical treatment for which I needed to keep track of my BMI. Metric is just easier for that, I found.

I'd use imperial. I use metric for science and for DIY, but for everything else where I need a sense of what the measurement "means" I used imperial. So that's cooking, sewing, height and weight, measuring the size of a room or furniture etc.

I'll assume they are thinking we don't need cm as that's an EU thing.

I highly highly doubt it has anything to do with that.

Probably a mistake, is all, or maybe the result of a focus group or survey.

I left school 38 years ago - we learned both systems in a seemingly random and haphazard way.

To answer the question, DD who is ten is 160 cm - but I do know the imperial equivalent as she's just overtaken Grandma and as a previous poster says - it's really easy to convert.

I use £££. When they cost me for new clothes I know they have grown!
Ds 15 needs size 12 huge trainers that aren't cheap!

I weigh and measure my kids and myself in metric.

cooking, sewing, height and weight, measuring the size of a room or furniture

I use metric for everything. I even ask for meat at the butchers or cheese at the cheesemonger in metric.

Height metric weight imperial 😂

A lot shorter than me.
A bit shorter than ne.
About the same height as me.
OK, you can stop growing now.
Please stop growing.
Almost as tall as your dad.
Etc

Metric here, for the DC and myself. I also use metric for cooking, measuring furniture, room sizes etc.

However, when I am thinking about distances between one town and another, it's always in miles! Also for car speeds. That's because speed limits, car speedometers and distance signs in the UK are always in miles /mph.

Imperial for lengths and weights, either for volumes, Farenheit for temperatures. But I'm reasonably good at mental arithmetic, and also have a good memory for figures, and can convert from one to the other if I need to.

The advantage of metric is that volumes and lengths are closely related in the case of water, so that 1 tonne - 1 cu m. So if you want to know, for example, how much gravel you need to cover your driveway to a depth of 4 inches, it's relatively easy if you convert (4 inches x area of driveway) into metric, assume gravel is much the same density as water, and slide across easily into tonnes. (Of course, you could have measured in metric in the first place)

Feet and inches. How tall are you in cm op?

What I like is it's still possible to buy in mixed units, like a 2m length of 2 x1 (inches).

assume gravel is much the same density as water

Er.....OK then.

Utterly illogical but height in metric & weight in imperial for the children.
But I'm 5ft5 and will never be 163cm or 1m 63.
It's easy enough to convert though

I'm in my 50s and use metric for everything. Imperial is clumsy and far more difficult to understand. I keep forgetting how many inches in a foot, ounces in a lb etc etc. Although I do know the height of everyone in the family in feet and inches too.