Months vs years

May be she is counting her daughter age in months. So she would said in months than years. Also some people have the tendency to show it as big numbers and they would do that in the way she did. It may also a reason.

Hold on if her daughter is only 30 months old is it really her birthday. Shouldn't it be 24 months or 36. I think people who do this are ridiculous, maybe they havent learned to convert months into years. I think after 12 months you start counting by years. The only thing that would have been more annoying is if she said her daughter was 130 weeks old.

Hi Nikhabele, I get it that an excited mom would like to acknoweledge her little ones monthly and bi-annual birthday and all. This usually wears off by the time the child is two but not always. It's all good but calling in to a radio station?? That seems a bit over the top. The thing is you don't want the child to come to expect that their birthday gets celebrated more than once a year.

hi Nikhabele I don't know if you are man or woman but in the US the first two or three years children do change monthly so pediatricians often advise moms to bring their child in to be checked ever few months so she possibly learned to count by months and so she wishes her daughter a happy 30 months birthday. Some would just say 2 and a half yr. birthday.most of us just have yearly birthdays.After three years the doctor visits usually will be yearly from then o n. There are worst things she could have done so let up on the lady a bit. She must really love her little girl to wish her happy birthday on the radio.

Umh, i also don't understand in here, people count the age of a kid is 2 months, 9 months, 15 months since the day that kid was born. However when become an adult like me, my age is added 1 more, they said that 1 years is counted since i was in my mom body. It doesn't make sense yet, i just was in my mom body 9 months but now my age is my real age plus 1.

A birthday is just that. A BIRTH DAY. The day of their birth. In that case, how can you celebrate a birth day more than once a year? If your child is born on January 1, well, January 1 only happens once a year. If you are celebrating a day that is 6 months from their birth, it is not their birth day. A birthday at 30 months? That's just ridiculous. When children are very young, people measure their development in months rather than years. There is a big difference between the development of a 4 month old and a six month old, therefore when asked the age of their baby they tend to respond in months. However, generally speaking, a birthday is only celebrated once a year. To call it a birthday at 30 months is misleading.

I would say that after 24 months you should start counting years. Why? Because children change so much in those first 2 years that months can make a difference. I don't think my roomie's nephew and his wife realized how delayed their daughter was until they saw her side by side with a child almost 2 weeks younger. Not to say they didn't know there was a problem, but how bad it was probably eluded them. Now she's getting some help and making great strides...

Yeah it does seem rather strange, although it is not too uncommon to rather refer to young child in terms of months. Although the practice does seem to stop rather after a few years old. Of course, it just seems a bit absurd after the first couple of years to keep referring to children in months. I have heard people talk about their sixteenth month old, eighteenth month old, you know the drill. I think that thirty months is about edging rather on the side of absurdity with the charade. I had assumed that two years might have been the baseline but I guess that had changed. Or really it is just someone celebrating even more milestones right in the life of their child, even through I personally feel that after the age of two, it should only be measured in years. But what do I know? Not that much apparently.

Theree are people who celebrate their children every month till a certain age, just because they feel so glad that they have them. I find it a bit too much, I mean, I have a guess these people are going to be the overly cligy, overprotective ones who are almost going to die when the kid wants to go to a week's long summer camp for the first time in their lives after lots of arguing...

two years to understand it, but then perhaps it is easier to count years than a month, often at first difficult to guess how many children her age.