To get rage when people use xx months with their child's age

[Dinoswearunderpants]

Slightly lighthearted but it also rages me. Just seen a thread on here stating their '12 month old'. The child is 1! Another I read today '25 month old' so that's a 2 year old then.

Why do parents do it? I literally have to calculate the months as I simply have a 'nearly 2 year old' (birthday in April).

Does it bother anyone else? What simple things do you see that give you slight rage?

Because there's a huge difference between a 12 month old and 19 month old in everything they can do. Yet both are 1

Doesn’t bother me under the age of 2, there’s a massive difference between a 12 month old and a 22 month old but both are 1 year old.

it gets annoying if someone is still going over two as it take me longer to do the maths 🤣😂 my 39 month old 🤯

I once saw someone refer to their 11 year old in terms of months, to show that they were still so young.

I used to be like this pre-children but have since realised it is because the gap between a 13 month old and a 20 month old is actually quite large 🤷‍♀️

Hey? Surely you know a 13 month old cannot do/eat/move/think/express themselves the same as a 23 month old.

I have someone on FB with a 4 year old and they do this...but not with months, with WEEKS!! She posted last week when he was #238 weeks

It does depend.

It get's silly once they are aged two and above but 13 months is very different from 23 months.

I always used to say "just turned one" or "almost two" though.

Oddly though I always used "18 months"as opposed to "one and a half"

There is a big difference between a child 13 months and 23
Above 3 it starts to get a bit odd but doesn't bother me

Most people stop at 2 anyway.

Oh I totally get there's a big difference but when they're only just 1 so say 14 months, why not say 'just over a year' or as 23 months say 'nearly 2'?

Up to the age of about two it’s fine because there’s so much change over that period.

After two it’s a bit daft.

I do weeks till they're 12 weeks, then months till they're 2, after that it's just the year unless someone asks more specifically for age plus months.

Up to the age of 2 I think it's fine, because there is a real difference between a 12 month baby, an eighteen month old, and 23 month toddler.

But I know these things can be irrationally annoying - my pet peeve is when someone refers to their "summer born" 10 year old .

WHAT!!! Utter madness. She must have an app which gives the weeks lol

Under 2 it's quite sensible- I do remember finding it amusing though when DD's nursery learning journal had her down at 43 months old though 😆

The summer born might be really relevant. For example, when people are going on about how SATs are sat by 7 and 11 year olds, it does matter than the summer born children sit them at 6 and 10.

And it matters that your summer born 11 year old is Y7 rather than Y6, because the expectations for a child at secondary school are so very different.

The months thing can make a difference. There’s a huge difference between just turned 2 and about to turn 3. Mostly I wouldn’t express that in months, but ‘he was 2 in december’ might be a useful bit of info to the person who has asked you how old your child is. Especially when compared to ‘he’ll be 3 in February’. They’re both still far enough off that 2.5 doesn’t quite cut it.

It all becomes utterly meaningless once you’re old enough that a decade is totally reasonable level of precision (in their 30s/40s/50s, for example). 🤣

My sons are 571 and 536 months old.
And I'm 910 months old.
Just thought you might like to know.

Acceptable under 2 years I say. The age and units of time I think make sense are
<1 day - hours
<2 weeks - days
<3 months - weeks
<2 years - months
<5 years - half years.

I think it's because I use the 24 hour clock without thinking about it. So the maths that translates 20 months to 12 + 8 is instinctual. Whereas 25 months + I have to think about it and actually work it out. So anything under 24 months fine, over 24 months instantly not!

Was that my post? I was asking about naps so there is quite a big difference between a 2 year old that’s 25 months and a 2 year old that’s 35 months in terms of development

I get confused with decimals used for children’s age. DD aged 2.7. Is that 2 years and 8.4 months? Or 2 years and 7 months, but that’s not really what a decimal place is for 🧐

Tell me you don’t have a child without telling me

Pah. Count it in weeks.

‘I’m 3012 weeks’ (I am not, because posting information that gives a reasonably accurate picture of your DOB online is daft) will offer greater precision to the point that people will really struggle to imagine how old you are. And it makes you sound ancient.

Even better if you say ‘I’m 21,086 days old’. Or even 506,070 hours old. Bamboozle people with unnecessary detail.

Its actually a well implemented developmental thing. A 1yo is very different at 12mo, 18mo, 23 months.
I think you're meant to do weeks till 6 months, then months till 2, then halves but I can't remember how long for.

It annoys me far more when someone writes "I seen"

I think its fine up to 36 month.

After 12 months I can never remember anyway 😂 then I switch to

“just turned 1”

”18 months”

”almost 2”

I know a few people that will be like “14 and a half months” I’m lucky if I know what day it is never mind how many months old they are