A mom contemplated shifting her son’s birthday to any other day because it had become “inconvenient” to celebrate the same for her 4-year old son. The birthday falls on Boxing Day and the rest of the family’s traditional festivities are also included in that. So, there’s no room left for a birthday celebration on the same day. She also told that it hadn’t been a problem until last year.

But the misery started when all the celebration was obstructed during the Christmas Eve. She said, “It really was rubbish that we couldn’t do anything special on the day due to nothing being open. This year just gone the weather was rubbish so we couldn’t even go out for a nice walk or play in the garden.”

Now, this problem enervates more when no issues like these arise on her other son’s birthday. Plus, it was celebrated very well. Everything was there before he was awake, including the balloons, banners, and presents. Also, there was a lunch planned at the soft play center.so, this mother wanted the same for this kid as well. She added, “He only has baby DS so no other children to play with.”She also added, “I felt sad for him as we couldn’t make it special.”

She shared this incident on Mumsnet and wanted to get some advice from the users if extending her son’s birthday two days ahead to 28th December. She wrote: “We’re always at my parents as we go there Christmas Day and it’s not an option to not stay there Christmas Day night. Because my parents get to see him on his birthday it’s only fair that we invite in-laws too, who although I get along with them, they are a pain. I have a good relationship with my parents but they’re a bit fussy/controlling on Christmas and his birthday (understandably so I guess as it’s at their house!) so it’s always been us/them awkwardly hosting ILs.”

As her DS is now grown-up, he doesn’t like to see too much formality on any occasion. So, she asked, “Would I be unreasonable to change DS’ birthday to a couple of days later, say the 28th of December?”. She continued: “We would be at home and all the Christmas presents would be unpacked/put away, everything would be open again so we could go to softplay/lunch/McDonald’s/museum/whatever HE wants to do, and we would have control over the day with it being in our house so could make it special, no pressure on him.”

As usual, some people agreed to her thoughts but some didn’t. One person wrote: “If it’s good enough for the Queen, then I don’t see why he can’t have an official birthday and an actual one”. So, the other user added: “Just celebrate on a different day?? Don’t get the issue to be fair. This is all in your remit”.

On the other hand, several people disapproved of it too. Someone said: “I can’t believe you are actually suggesting pretending to him that his birthday is on say, 28th December. Just do what pretty much everyone else has suggested and had a quiet day on his actual birthday if need be and then celebrate more fully on any other day of your choosing.”

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