People who say their dc IS a summer baby when they are at school

[thegrammerpolicesic]

I am sick of seeing this in the context of school-age children. They are not summer babies now. They are five or six or whatever. They were summer babies. They are not summer babies now. Rant over.

DS is 18. He is still my summer baby

At what age do children stop being babies. My eight year old son is still my baby and he is a winter baby. My 9 month old daughter is a spring baby.

Do you want people to say summer born children?

True thelunar.

Yes I do reallytired . That would be much better.

Isn't the point that they are still the babies of their yeargroup?

Sort of snorkie, but they are not babies now.
Saying the babies of the year group is different to saying they are babies.

It is pedants' corner....I am being pedantic I know!

round here people say 'Oh, Hildegard is a summer birthday', which is even less grammatically correct.

Maybe you are right tgp, but I agree with others who say that to parents children are always their babies in a way. I have two teenage 'babies' and I see it as my parental duty to embarass them with such nonsense as often as possible .

I remember my mum and dad always doing that and yes it was really . Got to be done as a parent!