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

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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 😂).

Yep definitely, once they are 2, it’s “2 and a bit” “two and a half” and “nearly 3”.

I find it really odd too, it’s like clinging to them being little. I just say 2, 2 1/2, nearly 3, whatever.

If someone said 33 months in my head Jd be thinking I have no idea how old your child is and it would take me a second to work it out. I don’t have head space for that.

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?

She hasn’t singled out anybody - I have no idea which other thread you’re talking about, and this is something LOADS of parents do. There was nothing personal or rude about a specific poster in the OP.

In her situation, if she’d said 2 she there would have been demands for the child’s exact age

8n that case just say 2 years 5 months

Context is everything...on the other thread the poster was talking about potty training where I think some degree of specificity is relevant. When you’re posting online it’s quicker to type x months than say “two and a bit”. If you’re speaking to a medical professional then referring to months at that age might be completely appropriate. If you’re just chatting to someone at a baby group or something then it’s probably unnecessary.

I don’t think it’s something to get worked up about tbh.

OP you need to give context to the post. The mum was posting about potty training and the age was important to the post!

You have little to do with your time to start a thread about it after the lady took a thrashing about it on the other thread! Be kind!

No context doesn't have to be given, saying 2 and a half would be better no matter what the context. It was nothing to do with the child's development, or anything the mother was worried about. OP doesn't need to give specifics about that thread, because she wasn't talking specifically about that threat, it just reminded her of others that do it.
There is never a need to state age in months after 1 year. That's why we have ages in years.

I dislike it. Only half years is ok, after the first year. Do, she's 2 and a half. And even that only till toddlerhood. Then it'll be she's just4, or nearly 5.
After that, who cares?