How long should a mother refer to her child's age in months?

Question

I ask because I just had a woman tell me that her child was 25 months old.........am I crazy to think that's crazy??? Why didn't she just say "two years"?

hmm....I think when I'm fifty I'll just say that I'm 600 months old.(heh)

Answer 1

I would love to say that my child is one year old - - but I would get the strangest looks. He is 22 months old. I will stop using months on his second birthday.

Months are used because until age 3 or so, milestones are guaged in months. Also it helps with bragging! If a child is doing something extraordinary at 25 months (something a 28 month old should be learning) many parents are proud that there child is doing it so early.

Answer 2

THANK YOU! I had that happen recently, too, and the mom answered "24 months" like that isn't EXACTLY 2 years old!

I think if they are less than a year old, acceptable. But once they hit the year mark, then you can start telling me they are one or two, etc. Unless it has to do with a doctor's visit or something.

Answer 3

Hehe... It usually stops somewhere around the third birthday (so 36 months). Most people however seem to stop right around the 2 year mark -- others are really fanatical about that sort of stuff.... Each person is really weird about that!

Me? My kid was 1 & a half or 2 & a half or whatever! No sense overtaxing peoples' brains!

Answer 4

It's different for everybody, but two years -- when they hit toddler age -- sounds about right. After all, you can always say "two years and three months" or "2 1/4 years". Have a great day!

Answer 5

I think until age 2. At 18 mos i refered to my daughters age as one and a half... but now i say shes 20mos old. I guess you get so used to it the first year it sticks. But after 2 i'm going to be sure to say years only. or say 2 years and 4 months or something like that.

Good question!

Answer 6

After my two children turned 1 year old, I never referred to their age in terms of months. By that point -- refer to their age in years.

Answer 7

I'd say up until about age 2.5 years. They grow and change SO much in those first couple of years that a month or two REALLY does make a difference in what they are capable of doing and interested in, etc.

Answer 8

Thats a great comedy question. You always get a mother saying how months the child is. I'd stop after the baby is 1.

Answer 9

I definitely have never heard a pregnant woman say, "i'm donning a fetus." not even in the earliest months of the being pregnant. for a woman who needs the newborn, it is a toddler from the very beginning. The time era fetus is utilized by ability of professional-abortionists as a fashion of justifying abortion. in case you word a scientific classification to the unborn organism, this is particularly separate and different from the mummy's physique from the 2d of theory, it is Homo Sapiens, comparable because of fact something human beings. there is not any separate classification for a fetus.

Answer 10

I'd say up to 18 months. At that point you can say a year and a half. I see that too. I guess the parents want to still think of them as a baby instead of a toddler.