To think that parents should stop counting age in months after they reach two?

[Nickelallergy891]

Just saw on another thread someone wrote "My 29 month old".... They're two!!

Loads of my friends seem to do this and it makes it more of a headache to work out their children's age (I scraped a C in Maths GCSE 😂).

@QueenofmyPrinces I don't dispute the difference in ages! Never intended to do that. However saying "2y 5m" or "2 and a half" just makes SO much more sense than saying "29 months"

@Nickelallergy891 almost 30 and a half! 🥳

@Undies1990 That's what I think, in the case of some of my friends anyway.

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Yanbu, I cba to do the maths to figure out what that actually means

I would say after 1! It goes just turned 1, to 1.5 and then nearly 2!

I dont know what you mean @Nickelallergy891. I always refer to my DCs ages in months.

Dd1 is 191 months
DS2 is 165 months

totally did not use a calculator to work that out

Agree in fact I’d say even earlier than that
it’s daft

@theformerporpentinascamander I'm guessing that's more than 10, less than 20 🤔😅

Totally depends on the context.

Chatting to someone in the park / in a shop when there is a casual 'how old is she' then I'd expect an answer of "2" or "two and a half" , but if a parent is worried about their dc's development, then there is a MASSIVE difference between a child who is 2yrs and 1 day and a child who is 2 yrs and 364 days, so then They ANBU to give the additional information.

I alway imagine people who age their baby in weeks, past about 12 weeks and months after 2 years are the same people that tshop every Saturday morning (whole family) for their rolling week fornight menu, wash the car Sunday morning and eat Sunday Dinner at their MILs every week.

There’s a big difference between 2 and 3. I don’t do months but I do say 2, 2 and a bit, 2 and a half, nearly 3 etc.

I'm so surprised there are so many going against you here Op, I was expecting 99% of people to agree with you

I think anything after about 18 months it just sounds precious. If someone tells me their child is 27 months old I don't bother to work out their child is 2 ¼, because I can't get past rolling my eyes at the parent

AccountAntsy that's perfectly acceptable

My 109 month-old and 96-month old would be most perplexed if I stopped now. DH too but he is a bit slow for a nearly 600-monther.

You are a disgrace. It’s not enough that the poster of that thread has taken an absolute pounding on her own thread, you’re now opening her up to ridicule on this thread. I hope you're proud of yourself. Did it really bother you so much you had to start a thread slating her?
In her situation, if she’d said 2 she there would have been demands for the child’s exact age as there is a huge difference between 24 and 36 months.

I aged my children in hours until 72 hours.
I aged my children in days until 28 days.
I aged my children in weeks until 24 weeks
I aged my children in months until 24 months.
And thereafter in half years until aged 7/8.
This felt right to me. It felt organic and bestowed a sense of growth and development. BUT unless the person is obviously unreasonable (maybe calling a 4 year old 48 months) I would just leave a parent to do what feels right to them. It is not something to get het up about.
I recall being very insistent that I had a newborn still at 8 weeks old. It’s fairly harmless as things go.
One observation - the tendency to describe in terms of months past a year tends to be a first child “thing”. But again, entirely harmless.

I have small children and no one really cares exactly how old your children are. As PP said if talking to a doctor it's significant but if chatting to a mum at a baby group it really doesn't make any difference whether little Stanley or Elsie has just turned 2 or is nearly 3.

I haven't said a bad word about the other poster or even named them, it just happened that the thread reminded me of the subject, as it was something on my mind from real life situations. Nothing wrong with healthy debate!

I agree re talking to the doctor - I totally get the logic there! I'm thinking more towards every day situations.

Pissing myself at OP being called "a disgrace" so funny!

Wait, there's another thread on this? 😁

I wouldn't have even known that if the PP hadn't brought it up.

@Nickelallergy891

I haven't said a bad word about the other poster or even named them, it just happened that the thread reminded me of the subject, as it was something on my mind from real life situations. Nothing wrong with healthy debate!

It’s clearly obvious who you are referring to for anybody who has read that thread.

And yes @gypsywater she is a disgrace as she has singled somebody from a previous thread out for ridicule. What part of that do you find funny?

OK, perhaps I should have worded it a little more anonymously puts hands up, but I really wasn't out to maliciously ridicule a specific person! It was an "in general" thing about a topic I've been pondering and a thread just happened to spark a reminder...

I'm not sure if 2 is the cut off.
"Just 2, 2.5 or nearly 3" is specific enough for me as a random forum reader