I don’t have the energy to convert 18 months or 24 months into years, man. Just give us the real age. I don’t go around saying im 35 and two months old 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 idk if it’s just me, but they look at me like I know how much taht is like woman, I can barely calculate when my shift is done 😭😭😭 please don’t put that weight on me 🫠
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Math shouldnt be that hard for an adult bud
Because there is no difference between being 35 and 35 and 2 months. But there is a big difference between a 12 month old and an 18 month old.
Just say ur bad at math
So I used to feel this way till I had kids. The difference between an 11 month old and a 1 month old is massive. After the changes slow a little years make sense but till at least 2 it makes sense. Look at a one year old on day one and a one year old on day 364. Totally radically different
IIRC infant ages are done in months because development is so fast at those ages. a 12 month old baby and a 16 month old baby can be leagues apart in terms of “intelligence” (relative to a baby) and physical capabilities
It’s for medical and developmental milestones and it’s genuinely a pain in the ass to switch, or at least it was for me. An 18 month old is way different than a 23 month old developmentally.
skill issue
i know you’re not 35 by the text LMFAOOO but it’s not that hard 18-12: a year and six months…
I feel like the only reason people specify months for infants is because the difference between months in infants is much more… clear, can’t think of a better word
like a 32 and 33 year old won’t be too different
but 12 months old and 18 months old are somewhat different, but honestly, if you’re 35, just do the math.
Months is much more useful than years when it comes to talking about infants. There’s a huge difference between a 2-month-old and an 11-month-old.
We don’t do that for adults because they don’t really change much from month to month.
Yeah changing 18 months into 1 1/2 yrs is such a challenge 🙄🙄. It is done because when talking about babies, 6 months is a massive difference. It is roughly the equivalent of the changes between 10 yrs old and 14 yrs old. It is significant.
Whenever this happens to me I wonder what mistakes I made in the conversation that resulted in someone thinking I care how old a child is.
It’s literally just 18 – 12 =?? +12
I’m sorry but just because you can’t do simple math doesn’t mean the whole system should be changed
C’mon dude, this isn’t Trig stuff. It’s Base 12 counting, not that tough to understand. What are you going to do when we go to Metric Time: two 10 hour cycles per day?
At 35 years, months don’t matter. At 18 months developmentally it is a huge difference.
If you have a problem with the math 36 months or under, that’s on you. 36 or over? That’s a fucking 3 year old (or 4,5,6 whatever)
Pfft why do we even separate it out by years? Just say 0 century old or one century old.
They could just say a year and a half. Then again when kids ask me the time I’ll say a quarter after, half past or a quarter til it really messes them up.
My suggestion is to just smile and nod. It is just something people say to make conversation. Even when my kids were in that age range I knew how old my kids were but didn’t care how old other people’s kids were.
I actually fully agree with this, past their first birthday.
I cannot stress enough how much I do not care whether your kid is 14 months or 18 months. You have a 1 year old. Just fucking say so.
First, 13 months and 23 months are both 1 year old, but the developmental difference is massive. Imagine the difference between 40 and 80.
Second, I don’t tell anyone my kids age unless they ask. If you are asking and then being upset when they give you the standard and relevant answer then you are a bit of an asshole.
A 12 month old: may or may not be able to walk, may or may not be able to say any words at all, at the tail end of still needing breast milk or formula
A 23 month old: probably running, singing, dancing, knows 50+ words, may be able to speak in simple sentences
Both of these are “1 year old”
And ps, an infant is only up until age 1. So under your premise should I answer that my infant is “zero” when you ask? Whether they are 1 or 9 months old? Is that a meaningful or productive response?
I feel like after 18 months, they just say 2 and 3, etc. I’ve never said someone say “he is 24 months old”
And by your logic, you would be 422 months not 35 and 2 months.
I am currently 372 months old lol
Nah you’re right. Once you hit 12 months, you’re a year old until you hit 24. Everything else between is pedantic nonsense unless you’re also a parent who can relate to the hyperspecific differences between a 13 month and 20 month old.
Infants develop a lot during their first two years of life. There’s a major difference between a newborn and an 11-month-old even though they’re both less than a year old.
I usually tell people what month I’ll turn X age. So I do indeed tell people how old I am to the month and I’m in my mid 30s LMFAO
There is a huge difference between a 12 mo old who is just learning to stand and a 20 mo old who is running. A ton of development happens in a month.
Up to two years: measure in months
2-6: fractions. 2 and a half, three and a quarter, etc. months are not as big a deal but five and three quarters vs. just turned 5 is a big difference.
6 onwards: the kid tells you. Probably in great detail. Because kids want you to know they’re 7 and 345 days or whatever.
I don’t know where everyone on reddit is finding these parents who call their two year old “24 months old” or go into months beyond 2 years old. I’ve never met anyone in any parenting group I’ve been in who does that. Most parents don’t even give months, they’ll say 1.5 year old or almost 2 or just over 2.
But it’s generally the rule of twos: hours old until 2 days, days old until 2 weeks, weeks until 2 months, months until 2 years.
There’s massive, rapid development that happens even between 18 and 20 months (1 year and 6 months and 1 year and 8 months, for your reference) so it’s important to differentiate.
A 12 month infant is at a significantly different stage in its life then a 20 month old infant. Both are a year old.
The difference between a 1 year old and an 18 month old is like the difference between a 3 year old and a 5 year old.
I’m fine with using months up to 18mo ish. once the kid hits 2y. I’d prefer to see years, not months. like other commentoers are pointing out, there’s a vast difference between 12mo and 18mo.
There is a HUGE difference between a child that is 12 months and one that is 18 months. Maybe they think that anyone who cares enough about their age would care enough to really know.
My mom is a NICU nurse, but before she went back to work she always volunteered with children— and I used to get IRATE with her for listing their ages in months.
Frankly it sounds ridiculous at first, so I started doing it, saying I was 157 months, etc, to show her how dumb it was.
Now that I have a kid I get it, to some extent. Because my 15 month old is at an entirely different stage and state than he was three months ago.
But BUT!!! I definitely tailor it to my audience, I state months to other moms/ mom groups or parents asking.
Younger kids or people who DGAF (which is totally ok! I wasn’t into babies before and it’s all actually quite boring unless you’re in it, trying to survive the trenches), then I’ll just say he’s one.
If you can’t fucking tell time or do basic math, whether it’s hours or months or years, you shouldn’t be allowed to have opinions 💀
Ok I’ll just tell you 1 year and it’ll be a surprise.
You can barely calculate numbers that low?? Also.. unless there is a specific reason like an upcoming birthday, why does it even matter to you enough to actually convert? You could just nod and move on if the math is too hard
We don’t measure infants age in years because:
It’s likely that decades would stop being significant when someone is around two centuries old.
I’m 636 months old what
After a kid is 2 it’s kind of annoying to go by months. But under 2 I get it.
I agree with you, but there’s a reason parents do it. Often times when people ask age, they compare their own’s kids development to your kid. So if you say your kid is 1 when he’s really 16 months will make a parent with an 11 month old wonder why her kid is smaller and walks way worse.
So yeah… the difference between 14 months and 18 months is massive when it comes to childhood development so I actually get it.
I used to think this until I had my son. Then I understood why.
It depends who you’re talking to. I mean, if you’re in the line at a grocery store and you’re just chatting about kids, you might just say “oh yeah I have a 1 year old at home…” but if you’re talking to people you’re close to, or if you’re talking about child development, you’d say it in months because a 13 month old is just starting to take steps and maybe say the odd intelligible word, where as a 22 month old could he running and talking in sentences. Both are classed as 2 years old. Also, kids clothing is in months at that age, it’s normally 0-3m, 3-6m, 6-9m, 9-12m, 12-18m etc…until maybe it goes 2-3 years.
There’s two things I hate more than anything else: people who are bad at math and people who use too many emojis.
If you can’t convert 18 months or 24 months into years, you have more issues than this.
Yeah this is legit
The same could be said for how American’s refer to their teenagers. Oh, she was a middleschooler, junior, etc.
The rest of the world – what does that mean?????????
Converting 18/24 months into years is literally 4th grade math. Maybe lower. Are you being serious? This has to be bait.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I tell people I’m 540 months old. /s
12months and 18months and 24months are all vastly different developmentally. Once they hit 2, just round it. Two years, almost 2.5, etc.
You have my upvote because your opinions is unpopular. It’s also uninformed.
We, humans, are comparative creatures. (I hope you’re human anyway. If not, let’s have a different discussion.) Our age is significant to others because it communicates the milestones that we have likely achieved. During the first two years of life, we develop quickly and hit a lot of milestones. As we age we hit fewer and fewer milestones.
To emphasize this phenomenon, the difference between a half year old and a one year old likely means a child being able to eat solids, feed itself, move around, and some are even potty trained. That happens in 6 months — sorry, half a year. The difference between me at 32 years old and 34 years old is about 5 pounds. Nothing else changed in 24 months — er, 2 years.
We talk about infant ages in months for the same reason a kid will ensure whether you know if they are 4 years old or 4 1/2 years old. It makes a significant enough difference that it is worth distinguishing.
Clearly does not have kids
I totally get it. “They’re 36 weeks old!” What… the… 🙄
The difference between a year and 18 months is basically two entirely different kids. Until they’re two, they’re growing so fast it’s impossible to describe them as just “one year” because that can mean so many different things.
It’s become easy for me, now that my son has reached 288 months old.
An 18 month old is incredibly different than a 1 year old. If you’re saying anything over 24 though it becomes pretty weird.
My husband is a mathematician, every month he tells me how old I am in months to celebrate my birth. Let’s just say once you get into the multi-hundreds it hits different! 😂
He’s 104 weeks!
There’s such rapid growth and development in the first two years. It’s ridiculous to just say 1 or 2. After two, you can probably just round up/down or say like 3 1/2.
There’s a reason behind it. 12 months and 23 months are both 1 years old but there’s a HUGE difference between them. One is just taking their first steps and the other is speaking to you in sentences. The development between ages for the first 2 years is crazy. There are a ton of milestones that should be met by 12, 15, 18, and 24 months and that’s why parents list their age in months. It’s not that hard to understand.
I don’t use months unless I’m speaking to a doctor or therapist. No one else cares, honestly.
lol you don’t have the energy to do 18/12 or 24/12?
By your logic, a child is 0 until they are 1.
You could have a babbling, walking kid, and you would have people looking you straight-faced telling you “they are 0”
Can’t convert? Seriously? Bet you can’t tell time on an analog clock either. If it’s under 12 months it’s under a year, over 12 they are over a year. By 24 months most people say 2 years, it’s not that hard. I’m 732 months old, how about you?
35 vs 35 + two months is not the same as 2 months vs 4 months. Under 1, what age are they supposed to say? 0?
It takes less than 2 seconds to convert 18 to 1.5, though. I feel it speaks more about you than the person with the child.
All things considered, though, there isn’t much biological change between a 30 and 33 year old, but there is a difference between children even 4 months apart.
Education system has failed you
Why stop there? Just call yourself 3 decades old for the entirety of your 30s!
Yeah….no. We measure in months for a reason.
I’m sure all the parents have told you, and I am not a parent, but even I know they use months because the difference a 1 month to a 3 month to a 9 month is so drastic. It is the equivalent of comparing a 15 year old to a 20 year old to a 30 year old. Puberty, “adult”, geriatric if you ask the kids.
Yeah referring to your child’s in months after a year it’s just cringe
I understand if the kid is under two, but I’ve had coworkers talk about their 31-month-old. After age two, it starts getting a bit ridiculous
It’s important to use weeks then months before we switch to years after 24months. Because there are a lot of milesrones kids need to reach developmentally and it needs to be tracked easily. there is vast differences between a new born and a 6 week old than a person in their 20’s and two months later in their 20’s. So it’s done to track developmental milestones and is important.
If there is more than 2 of something, go by that thing. So first 13 days, you can go by days but once there is 2 weeks go by weeks. Once there are 2 months, go by months. Once there are more than 2 years, go by years.
Brother, it’s a simple conversion
Once they get past 2, you don’t use months. If you can’t figure out that 18 months is a year and a half, that’s only you. If I went around saying I am 442 months old, it’s ridiculous because there is no difference between me and a 402 month old. A 13 month old and a 23 month old are both 1, but very different.
This is why paying attention to math in school is important, kids.
Yeah anything past “11 months” is silly
A 12 month old 1 year old and a 23 month old 1 year old are at completely different developmental stages. If someone tells you their baby is 1, you might envision a toothless infant or you might envision a whole potty-trained toddler. And you’d be right both times, because nobody clarified to you what type of 1 year old you’re dealing with
Nah it’s not peoples fault you can’t do simple math.
Plus a 12 mo, an 18mo and a 23mo are all 1year but their development is way different
People should just round to the nearest decade
OP be like “I want everyone to know I’m ignorant and bad at math”
I thought it was weird too, until I had kids. A lot continues to develop through the months until age 3 or 4 so this is as good a way as pointing out a child is 10 years old
Somebody never learned to count when they don’t have enough fingers.
There’s a massive difference between a 12 month old and a 23 month old. Sorry you don’t know how to count or the 12 times table.
Developmentally it makes sense till they are about 2. 1 or 2 months makes a HUGE difference then. After 2, 1 or 2 months still makes huge changes, but it’s more progressive increase then the huge milestone they keep hitting almost all at once those first 2 years. Plus I agree, it’s silly and cumbersome to say 34 months or whatever.
You’re 35 and can’t calculate when your shift is done or how old a baby is I’m sorry but I have a feeling I know why you can’t handle the “weight” of that being put on you.
If you’d like, my 7 year old can help teach you to convert 24 months to years.
Tell me you know nothing about children without telling me you know nothing about children 😀
You don’t have to do any converting…. why are you converting? 276 months is 276 months….
Once they hit 2 the month by month doesn’t matter but the difference between month 13 and 18 is huge
There is a bf difference between a 1.5 year old and a 2.0 year old but I’m cool with decimal years.
There’s a lot of people on here who don’t understand that in casual conversation, most people aren’t doing maths. Especially if they don’t have kids
I agree, I don’t know why my mom tells people that I’m 386 months old
In my experience, it’s the doctor’s appointments. There’s so many of them and such a big emphasis on the age in months. After a while, you just get used to saying it that way.
Up to age 2, a few months makes a significant developmental difference.
Beyond age 2, the parent is just being pretentious.
Here’s a quick guide for you.
6 months — half a year
12 months — one year
18 months — 1½ years
24 months — 2 years.
If it takes energy for you to convert, it might be more of a ‘you’ issue than it is wrong. But that aside, the reason months are used are two reasons. One, months are a more accurate measurement. For example, if something is 11 inches long, you wouldn’t measure it in feet. You wouldn’t say it is 11/12 feet, or 0.91666 feet, and you certainly wouldn’t measure it in 0.0008916 miles. We often don’t even convert to the next highest measurement as soon as we reach the single unit level. For example, we don’t say we’re going to get a foot to 1.1666 feet when the snowstorm drops 12 to 14 inches. They usually count days until 2 weeks, weeks until 2 months, and months until 2 years.
Now, the second reason is that there are far more growth milestones at shorter intervals at that age. You can expect certain things to happen at say 2 weeks, 2 months, 16 months. As we get older, those milestones get further apart. You become a toddler at age 2 or 3, an adolescent at 13, an adult at 18, middle aged at 45, geriatric at 65 (I’m bullshiting the exact numbers, but it doesn’t affect my point).
uhhh the difference relative to 12 and 18 months is huge. thats like the same relative difference between 35 and 52.
You would think that
OP is just trying to make others look bad for being bad with math themself. lol
You’re brave admitting you can’t work out how many months at in a year
Ok, my baby is 2/3rd years old. Or would you rather I say it is 8 months old?
I always said my daughter’s age in years and my pregnancy in months instead of weeks.
The “my child is 68 weeks old today!” Is annoying
Idk, I’d be more worried about why that conversion takes so much mental effort on your part.
How is this a popular opinion… Less upvotes than comments. Am I taking crazy pills?
YES!!!
I can’t stand the whole “16 months this” and “20 months that” nonsense. Just say 5 months old or 1 and a half years, come on.
Especially the parents who say stuff like “30 weeks” — stop it. LMFAO.
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I don’t know how to help you if you struggle to convert 24 years into months man.
And honestly, parents mostly do it out of habit. We are used to thinking about our child in weeks and then months because of milestones and whatnot. Past two, I tend to think of my child in years and not months, because the changes between a 24 month old child and a 28 month old child is much less than the differences in a 3 month old and a 7 month old…
Omg I swear this convo comes up like three times a week. They use months when the kid is young because there’s a massive difference in development from month to month with babies. Using months gives a more accurate understanding of how big the baby probably is and what it’s capable of
I don’t know how many years=5/12 months without a calculator and I’m not pulling out a calculator when you ask how old the kids is. “Less the one but greater than zero.”
I feel so identified with this, I always think the same thing inside, why don’t you just say the years instead of trying to make me think more?
Just say you can’t do math my guy. Like do you need to bust out your calculator to figure out that 18 months is 1.5 years???
It matters because we are also tracking how many consecutive weeks we’ve remembered to our pants on before leaving the house. Just let us have this, man.
Up until about 2 years old, there are HUGE developmental milestones in between months. A 3 month old and 6 month old are vastly different. Same with a 6 month old and 12 month old. Not just mentally, but physically. A lot of guidelines for parents are written around ages in months.
Just cause you can’t do math in your head doesn’t mean the world should change how they do things, lol.
It’s really just until they’re 2 years old. Then you don’t have to age them by months.
I would just say she’s a 1 year and 6 months or whatever. If she was under a year I’d say the months then. But most people who are asking, unless they’re your kid’s pediatrician, don’t actually care, they’re just making conversation.
Infants are usually under a year old. Saying “my kid is 0.75 years old” is a lot less practical than saying “my kid is 9 months old”.
So they are zero years old for 11.99 months? 😀
Typically this stops at about 2 years old. The reason is because for those first 24 months there are a number of important developmental milestones the parents need to be looking out for. After 2 years we typically move into 2 and a half milestones are spread further out and typically by the time they are 7-8 they drop the halves as well and it’s just years after that.
> I don’t have the energy to convert 18 months or 24 months into years, man
Please seek professional medical help
I believe it’s up to 2 years old. There are a lot going on, and there are a lot of different development stages happening. Is the reason why people use months. I also just generally think this point is stupid. Since the math to do this is very simple.
We just celebrated my oldest kid’s 300 month birthday!
lol 13 months is completely different then 23 months
There is a massive difference between a baby who is 12 months old and who is 20 months old.
The baby is still 1 year old at the latter.
Anyone agreeing with this does not understand ratios and relativity. A month is a big portion of a babies life.
Being told months tells me the kid’s 2 or younger. I really don’t need any more specific information than that. The only reason I would need a specific age would be to buy clothes which would still require months.
I can think of no reason why I need to know the exact year.
This is a popular but stupid opinion
Idk man I’m a mere 506 months old myself.
To everyone saying no one cares how many months someone’s baby is, then why does it matter? Just translate “age measured in months” to “baby” and don’t worry about what it means. If you don’t feel like doing the math of converting day 14 months to a year and two months, you don’t have to, it’s a baby, there’s still plenty to say about how cute it is or whatever.
Who or what the hell prompted these month terms for an infants age? if I had to guess it’s pediatrician terms?
If you’ve spent any appreciable amount of time with toddlers, you’ll understand why their ages are typically given in months. A typical 12 month old and a typical 18 month old are more drastically different in skills and behavior than a typical 4 year old and a typical 6 year old are.
I don’t care that babies develop quickly and that a baby at twelve months and one at fifteen months are in different stages in life.
I do not give a shit.
Most people do not give a fuck. Just say a year or two, a year and a half or whatever the fuck it is.
Days until 2 weeks, weeks until 2 months, months until 2 years.