<![CDATA[Yearend Baby]]>Hihi


Anyone whose baby is born near yearend? Nov, Dec?

I have a Dec baby… and I feel her developments as compared to her kor kor and jie jie are much slower?

Any comments?

She should be 3 next year… and I am still deciding to send her to playgroup like what I did for my 2 elder kids when they were 3…

Any advise?

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jedamum:

maybe cannot celebrate in school, but what about celebrate at macdonalds or some other venue? can get the teacher to distribute the invitation before the term ends, and notify parents to rsvp. when nearer to date, reconfirm with parents again.
hm.. can consider when is my bb's turn.. 😉

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/469016https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/469016Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:56:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:09:50 GMT]]>

jedamum:
Hifive:

[quote=\"dramamama70\"]Slightly off-topic but one of the things that my year-end dd2 does not get to enjoy is school party for birthday. She's a Dec baby so it's school holidays when her bday comes around... poor girl has never had the opportunity to share a birthday cake or have her classmates sing a birthday song for her in class.


My DS2 is also born December. He is in his kindergarten now and has been pestering me that this year, he must have a celebration in school as he has seen so many of his classmates celebrated their birthdays already. I am still thinking how to do it :?

maybe cannot celebrate in school, but what about celebrate at macdonalds or some other venue? can get the teacher to distribute the invitation before the term ends, and notify parents to rsvp. when nearer to date, reconfirm with parents again.[/quote]My fren's kid also early Dec baby and she loved it cos she gets to go abroad to diff places to spend her birthday!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468913https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468913Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:09:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:04:55 GMT]]>

Hifive:
dramamama70:

Slightly off-topic but one of the things that my year-end dd2 does not get to enjoy is school party for birthday. She's a Dec baby so it's school holidays when her bday comes around... poor girl has never had the opportunity to share a birthday cake or have her classmates sing a birthday song for her in class.


My DS2 is also born December. He is in his kindergarten now and has been pestering me that this year, he must have a celebration in school as he has seen so many of his classmates celebrated their birthdays already. I am still thinking how to do it :?

maybe cannot celebrate in school, but what about celebrate at macdonalds or some other venue? can get the teacher to distribute the invitation before the term ends, and notify parents to rsvp. when nearer to date, reconfirm with parents again.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468895https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468895Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:04:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:15:46 GMT]]>Morning Mummies..


Oh ya.. birthday celebration.. I did not think of that... can save on goodies bag.. 😉

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468431https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468431Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:15:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:47:59 GMT]]>

Hifive:

My DS2 is also born December. He is in his kindergarten now and has been pestering me that this year, he must have a celebration in school as he has seen so many of his classmates celebrated their birthdays already. I am still thinking how to do it :?
Celebrate in advance.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468243https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468243Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:47:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:42:04 GMT]]>

dramamama70:
Slightly off-topic but one of the things that my year-end dd2 does not get to enjoy is school party for birthday. She's a Dec baby so it's school holidays when her bday comes around... poor girl has never had the opportunity to share a birthday cake or have her classmates sing a birthday song for her in class.

My DS2 is also born December. He is in his kindergarten now and has been pestering me that this year, he must have a celebration in school as he has seen so many of his classmates celebrated their birthdays already. I am still thinking how to do it :?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468231https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468231Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:42:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:30:10 GMT]]>Slightly off-topic but one of the things that my year-end dd2 does not get to enjoy is school party for birthday. She’s a Dec baby so it’s school holidays when her bday comes around… poor girl has never had the opportunity to share a birthday cake or have her classmates sing a birthday song for her in class.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468206https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/468206Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:30:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:54:35 GMT]]>🤷 I was a year end baby but never received any special treatment except that some classmates expressed admiration that though I'm \"younger\" than them, I did better academically. They also not pressurized to do well though they are older. Maybe last time children very gong gong one, never bother about such things. My 3 DS are born in March, May and Dec. Also never faced any problem lei except when DS2, the Dec one, went to K1 at the beginning of the year, the bus attendant almost put him in nursery cos DS2 was very small and she genuinely made the mistake based on his size.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/467374https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/467374Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:54:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:24:41 GMT]]>Regarding yearend baby, i find that they do have advantages among the disadvantages. Considering yearend, people have some sort of ‘expectations’ and ‘understanding’ that they are slower, so progress in the norm is celebrated. Similarly, beginning of year babies have the pressure when compared to yearend babies are that they are ‘expected’ to ‘perform’ (ie be better) since they have the headstart; that is their disadvantage.

say say only la. don’t compare is best la. but cannot be ignorant too (ie incase need intervention for probable developmental issues).

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/467342https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/467342Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:24:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:19:43 GMT]]>I have a nephew who is in his early 30s and was born on 29 Dec. He is a medical doctor and is about 1.75 m tall. I have another 14 years old cousin born on the same date, is about 1.6 m tall and guess what, she is a GEP student. So yearend baby would ‘catch up’

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/467339https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/467339Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:19:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:15:26 GMT]]>Yes. Agreed dont have to worry so much about the development. And preschool teachers should not comment on that either.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466805https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466805Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:15:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:07:42 GMT]]>I have 2 year end gals - 2nd half of Dec.


dd1 was 3years and 2 weeks old when she started a 3-hourly nursery program. Apart from being smaller in size, i think she coped well with the lessons and her learning. She was already toilet trained when she started school, and she did not have any separation anxiety issues (as compared to some of her classmates who started at pre-nursery). However, the teachers did comment that she was rather quiet at the beginning, but by the end of her nursery program, she caught up with the older kids in her speech development. She topped her class for P1 n P2. Hehe, now at P3, can't say the same :nailbite: And it has nothing to do with her being a year end child.

dd2 is now 2.5 years old. Apart from being smaller than her peers (always at 50 percentile), she's doing fine. Besides Sunday school, she's not attending any classes at the moment. Ideally, I would prefer not to send her to school until she turn 4. But alas, I caved in to pressure to enrol her in a nursery program in Jan 2012, after she turn 3.

I think as long as they are happy and meeting all the necessary development milestones, its ok. They will catch up one way or another. And I agree with one of the fellow forummers, if any preschool teachers are telling you that your child is \"slow\", then it's time to change school/teacher.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466791https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466791Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:07:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:24:10 GMT]]>A coin has both sides: what is seen as a disadvantage for a year end kid may be an advantage as well.


For one, by sch time, they get to learn what the other kids are learning - that is to say, they learn things earlier. Don’t parents wish their kids can learn things earlier?

Next, when the year end kid may have to start off by working harder than a start of year kid to catch up. This may prove to be a valuable experience for the kid to know about working hard to get what he wants in life.

In actual fact, there is very little difference between year end and start of year kid. Even kids with a little age gap also hardly has much difference once they are grown up. As we grow older, the difference become even less significant. What makes the difference is more the kid’s character.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466755https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466755Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:24:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:28:35 GMT]]>Come to think about it, while the diffference may not be apparent by the time the child is in P1, a child born in the beginning of the year does have an advantage, all things being equal. I just remember that the top student for all the different cohorts when I was in primary school were all Jan babies. My brother was in the top class throughout in a top secondary school and JC. The youngest in his class had always been born no later than Jul / Aug. I noticed that because I remember my primary school partner telling me that as a Jan child, she has a natural advantage over me, a Dec child.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466721https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466721Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:28:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:22:14 GMT]]>My first two kids are year end babies. The difference for DS1 was not so great coz he’s tall, and we started him in nursery a bit later. but the difference in maturity was perceptible. Now he’s in P1. I would say there is not much difference.


The difference was more stark for my second one and his classmates when I started him in playgroup the year he turned three. Some of his classmates were almost three but he had just turned two! He is physically much smaller than his friends and less developed overall. His teachers don’t ever put him down though. Any trained teacher would not do that. It is not fair to compare a 26 month old with a 36 month old.

DS3 is a Jan baby. Let’s see if he will have an advantage!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466506https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466506Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:22:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:41:51 GMT]]>I think the danger for me is treating dd like she is 3 when she is not really 3 yet, and the differences btwn a Jan and Dec baby can be quite stark from ages 0-4 i find. kind of expect more from her, expect her to behave maturely etc, when she’s still in her terrible twos…


sometimes i have to force myself to step back and remember that she’s only 2+, still in many ways a little girl, and not a ‘big girl’ as we like to tell her…

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466445https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466445Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:41:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:08:37 GMT]]>

Castle House:
Seem like quite a few mummies have yearend bb.. and their developments are on par with their peers.. and that is a real consolation to me.. :thankyou:

Hi,
My daughter is a Nov child...and in P1 this year.
I find that she is a little slow in picking up...where her subjects are concerned, she does need time to recall what has been taught. When she finishes P1 in Nov, she's not even 7. But it's tough getting her to learn her spelling.
Maturity wise, she is quite ok though...maybe bcos she is a girl.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466376https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466376Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:08:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:49:52 GMT]]>Seem like quite a few mummies have yearend bb.. and their developments are on par with their peers.. and that is a real consolation to me.. :thankyou:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466216https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/466216Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:49:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:56:34 GMT]]>When I send to my daughter to nursery I also thought to send playgroup.But I sent nursery.First 6 months she and I struggled.But now she is in k1,she is doing well.She born in Aug 7,but very playful and imotional character.

My son Born in Oct 24.From baby onwards I teach very concenly.cos he also need to study with Jan born children.But he pickup faster.I sent him playgroup.I think depend on their ability and how we coach them from born onwards.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/465884https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/465884Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:56:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:46:12 GMT]]>dd3 is a dec baby. However, I don't think she is of much slower as compared to her peer now. She is 2.5yr, end of the yr she will be 3. However compared to her class children, she is the few who are toilet trained. Personally I don't think she got any problem in class (childcare too). In fact, she stayed with the toddler class early this yr until Jun then she is 'promoted' to pre-nursery, same as the rest of the kids born in the same yr. But the teachers are impressed with her. They find her not any slower than any other kids from pre-nursery.


In fact, dd2 also yr-end baby. I have not find her slow too. In fact, I think she is mature since young. I think it also depends a lot on the child themselves. Don't worry, when they start primary school, whether yr end or yr start, I don't find much difference. 😄

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/465855https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/465855Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:46:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:12:53 GMT]]>:laugh:


Ya.. I agree size will mislead others perceptions .. even sometimes we as parents also tend to forget that.. as my kids are really tall... :faint:

So, when we coach and guidance them, we move ahead instead.. 😓

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sall:
Hi Jedamum, dd was also reading a lot since very young. In the end, she is short-sighted at age 4. She started wearing glasses at 5 too. We hardly watch tv or use computer, so I was really upset when strangers stared at her and commented that she must be watching too much tv or computer. :sad:

sall,
i guess that is what people will assume. luckily some of my MIL relatives are optician so MIL knows it is not TV. (I'm saved! :evil:). We dont have ipad, nintendo, gameboy, wii etc at home too. They said my ds2 broke the record of being the youngest in the family to wear specs; i said he broke the record of being the one in the family who can read by 4yo.
but cos he big size, wear specs, now look like primary 1 student if he don't open his mouth to talk. :imanangel:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/464789https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/464789Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:30:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:24:21 GMT]]>Hi Jedamum, dd was also reading a lot since very young. In the end, she is short-sighted at age 4. She started wearing glasses at 5 too. We hardly watch tv or use computer, so I was really upset when strangers stared at her and commented that she must be watching too much tv or computer. :sad:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/464786https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/464786Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:24:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Yearend Baby on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:07:24 GMT]]>

sall:
jedamum:


the only clear distinction now for my K1 is the maturity and speech/conversational skills. his learning abilities is on par, if not better than his peers (teacher feedback). but then, i do quite a fair bit of work at home to give him that headstart/equalizer.

Ya, I did that too. Bought lots of educational toys, books, cards and whatever to prepare her for school. So compared to some older kids in her class, she's actually much ahead.

sall,
i bought a lot of educational toys too (secondhand/sale) cos my initial plan was to wean ds2 of his attachment to the TV. it worked. i digged out stuff that ds1 had went through (half done assessment, phonics materials etc) and just about 10min a day. borrowed a lot of books for him too. he learned alot from the books that we read together (my ds1 was amazed at some of ds2's 'basic knowledge' on science) and knowing how to read, he picks up his brother's books/papers to browse too (even if it is looking at pics, it still keeps him away from the TV, so i'm happy).

but now, bearly 5yo, he needs to wear specs. 😢 that will make him looked more matured. :faint:

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