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[quote=Anonymous]OP I don't have specific advice but wanted to speak to your general stress over this, especially on top of general holiday stress.

My kid has an August birthday which I discovered can be tricky for a variety of reasons, and can make it hard to do birthdays the way other kids do them. At first this was hard and we had a couple years where my kid's birthday was a bit of a let down because she wanted it to look the same as her friends who had school year birthdays and it just... didn't. No classroom cupcakes, no "class party" with just kids from her school classroom.

And then one year (around K) we hit on a tradition that works for her and for us and is feasible to do in August and she loves it. It doesn't look like other kids' birthdays which is fine because her birthday is at a different time of year and what other kids do wouldn't work for her birthday. She loves how she celebrates. And over the years we've discovered that a lot of families with summer birthdays have kids of different traditions for this reason. Also eventually the classroom and all-class parties go away anyway, even for kids with school year birthdays.

My point is that this seems stressful now but basically resolves itself, even if you wind up muddling through the preschool years with birthdays that are sort of an approximation of what other kids do but also somehow not as satisfying because of when your kid's birthday is. You just figure it out. Stay positive and your kid will too.[/quote]

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