Bets time to have a baby with respect to schooling

fluffnutter

My son was born in July and he seems a bit of an idiot, frankly, so perhaps there's something in it.

Queen_B_3

My DH was born in the middle of August, I wouldn't say he has been academically disadvantaged but he has said that birthday parties were hard to arrange as they were during the holidays not many children could attend due to holidays/forgetting etc.

pinkshoes

balletshoes wrote: »

my thoughts - what a load of old b**locks. Honestly, there are far more important things to consider for your child than which month they are born in. You being born 4 months ahead of your OH is not the reason you had an easier time academically than he did.

Actually, it's not b*llocks at all!

Just finished my dissertation on the attainment gap, and isolating other criteria, then month of birth is actually quite significant up to the end of KS3 (Y9), although the difference is then wiped out at KS4 (GCSE).

August is the best time of year to have a child for financial reasons if you plan to go back to work, as they will then start school in the September after they turn 4, saving you potentially 12 months of nursery fees!

balletshoes

pinkshoes wrote: »

Actually, it's not b*llocks at all!

Just finished my dissertation on the attainment gap, and isolating other criteria, then month of birth is actually quite significant up to the end of KS3 (Y9), although the difference is then wiped out at KS4 (GCSE).

August is the best time of year to have a child for financial reasons if you plan to go back to work, as they will then start school in the September after they turn 4, saving you potentially 12 months of nursery fees!

thats all fine, but other criteria matter, so the month of birth alone can't be isolated, it can only be treated as a contributory factor to the academic experience - and can be either significant or not, depending on what other criteria have been met/surpassed.

shortdog

I think it's a load of old codswallop, to be honest - we're in Scotland, and my eldest is a November birthday (although should have been Feb), so she's one of the youngest in her class, and is academically top of the class. However, my son, who is an April baby, and was the eldest in his class, hated school, learned nothing, and left Primary 1 knowing nothing more than he had when he started, other than a few choice swear words.
Same school, same teacher, same class size.

Janepig

Queen_B wrote: »

My DH was born in the middle of August, I wouldn't say he has been academically disadvantaged but he has said that birthday parties were hard to arrange as they were during the holidays not many children could attend due to holidays/forgetting etc.

DS's birthday is Boxing Day and it's a similar thing for him - he's never had a birthday party anywhere near his birthday, it's usually about 3 weeks before. It's his own fault though, he was due on the 28th of January :cool::D.

Jx

Torry_Quine

By the way is the OP planning a visit to the local bookies to place a bet as to when their baby is born. :rotfl::rotfl:

ellay864

I was a late August baby, youngest in my year, did great at school and got a good degree. My March born younger brother was totally non-academic and ended up expelled from school.
Anyway if planning was that easy there wouldn't be threads on here from ladies who have spent months or years trying to have babies and would give everything to conceive and give birth to a baby in any month!

barbiedoll

I don't know about all this academic advantage etc etc but I would say that you should try not to have a baby in January.

It's a nightmare trying to get anything decent for their birthday, the shops are full of sale rubbish as all the good stuff went at Christmas. Plus, it's often snowing so organising anything for a party is difficult, we've had to cancel things at the last minute because of the weather.

And definitely don't have a kid whose birthday is 2 days before the January payday!

ellay864

Also try to avoid them sharing a birthday with school friends as they're bound to fall out and/or refuse to have a joint party and you run the risk of guests having to choose which one to go to!