A little bugbear

Sequeena

I know it's a real annoyance for some people and I completely understand why but I do have to revert to months at times. My son is 2.5 and in general I say '2.5 his birthday is in August' but when people ask about his disability which is almost every day I say he's 31 months but with all his issues he's only 15 months mentally/developmentally. It's much easier to explain that way why he is the way he is.

His doctors go by months still so sometimes it will slip out even in general conversation as I'm so used to it.

System

Theres a lot of development between the age of 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 so I can go as far as counting the halves but when you start counting in months... that's ridiculous.

It gets a bit pointless when they reach 4 i recon.

Gillyx

I do this, I don't know why I do it really, probably because he's older than 2, but not yet 2.5 I suppose.

I didn't think it would annoy anyone though

jackomdj

Some people do the whole first year as weeks too and that annoys me as I have to work it back into months. Sequeena, your is understandable as it's for medical reasons.

gunsandbanjos

jackomdj wrote: »

Some people do the whole first year as weeks too and that annoys me as I have to work it back into months.

Weeks is acceptable until about 12 weeks or so I reckon? After that I'd work in months.

surveyqueenuk

In Sequeenas case, and other medical situations, I think it is fine to use just months as there are a lot of developmental differences between, say, a child of 1 year exactly and a child of 1 year and 10 months. But in general chit-chat, I do wish people would stop with the months - there is nothing wrong with saying 1 year and six months old, for example. I asked how old your child is, not for a counting lesson!

I think fivetide is right about people not wanting to face the fact they don't have a baby anymore. I will probably get flamed for this but what really gets my goat is people referring to children who can walk/talk as "babies".

System

but where do you draw the line? I often refer to my kids as 'kids' even though the youngest is 18 and the oldest is 32. No longer kids any of them but if there was a more suitable word I'd use it cause its embarrassing.

surveyqueenuk

Judi wrote: »

but where do you draw the line? I often refer to my kids as 'kids' even though the youngest is 18 and the oldest is 32. No longer kids any of them but if there was a more suitable word I'd use it cause its embarrassing.

Lol, I think it's the whole "Oh don't mind about little Mercedes-Keighan standing on that stool pulling out the contents of your cupboards - she's only a baby" thing! After all, you would say that you had, for example, three children, even if the children were, in fact, in their late thirties. I am just cynical Judi, that's all!

gunsandbanjos

surveyqueenuk wrote: »

Lol, I think it's the whole "Oh don't mind about little Mercedes-Keighan standing on that stool pulling out the contents of your cupboards - she's only a baby" thing!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lily-Rose_3

It doesn't annoy me, but I know a couple of people who say it annoys them LOL.

Basically, I think it's OK to say 18 months, as it sounds a bit better than saying they're 'one and a half.' But when they're gone 2, then I would say it in years. 'Just gone two' 'Nearly 2 and a half...' etc.