Maybe your kid slept through his first Thanksgiving. Maybe you adopted him from another country. Or maybe he chose not to observe the holiday last year as some sort of protest, latching on to an activist movement in his youth, only to see the error of his ways and join in the turkey-munching fun this year.
Whatever the case, don’t laugh at how Babies R Us is selling 24-month-old sizes of “My First Thanksgiving shirts, because there must be some people out there who demand such a thing.
(Thanks, Franco!)
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Or maybe the whole family just came to the US
Or maybe the 12 mo. size doesn’t fit…
Then there’s an 18-month size.
They likely make this outfit in sizes ranging from 6 mos, through 36 mos.
My baby is 11 months old and he currently wears 18-24 month right now. He is very tall and skinny for his age. I can see needing a 24 month old size if you had a tall and fat baby.
There are a lot of 10 or 11 pound babies this year. They’re big coming out and they stay big.
Or maybe it is the first they will remember–or are at least aware of. Even at 11 or 12 months, they have barely any idea what is happening most of the time.
I don’t think children start forming long-term memories until age 3 or 4. I only have a couple of memory-flashes from when I was 3, and nothing from when I was 2.
Depends on the kid, I’d imagine; I have very clear memories between the ages of one (I recall my first birthday in detail, and my mom says it’s spot-on) and five, but after that things get hazy. This coincides with when I first started to get migraines, so make of that what you will!
Children cannot form lasting memories until they possess narrative–the ability to tell themselves what they saw, or articulate an experience. So, it may be true that more well-developed, lasting memories don’t form until they are closer to 3 or 4. However, it does seem they can form “lasting” memories–memories that stay with them for a few years–during their first few years of life. While they may not retain these memories when they are adults, or even older children, it is not uncommon for a 4 year old to remember things that happened at 1 1/2, or 2, but those memories may fade when they get to 6, 7, 8, etc.
My point was that seeing a “turkey,” learning the word “Thanksgiving,” and all that stuff doesn’t really happen until closer to two. Children very often can speak by 1, but their understanding of celebrating holidays doesn’t really stick with them until 2-3 years of age.
24 Month clothing seems perfectly appropriate for a child. Besides, the marketing is entirely for the parents, who may be celebrating their first Thanksgiving.
My grandpa always told us he remembered being born. Why did you lie to us grandpa, why?
Believe or not, there are 11 month old babies that require 24 month clothes.
I agree. My nephew is 6 months old and wearing 12 month old clothes already. There is also an inconsistency in sizing between manufacturers.
THIS! Mine did, and she wasn’t “fat”, as some other commenters are saying, she just grew very quickly and was wearing 18 mo and 24 mo sizes before her first birthday. It’s not actually that uncommon.
I believe you. All three of my kids were wearing clothes sized at least six months older than their age throughout their toddlerhood.
True. My niece was in 2T and 3T clothes by her first birthday. She’s very tall.
And then you have our second. He’s about to hit a year and can wear anything from 6-12m. His sister, on the other hand, is 3 and wears size 6 pjs.
I thought part of the point of having kids was to dress them in embarrassing outfits for the amusement of all.
Or a really really fat kid? It isn’t as if they are all that rare.
Or maybe a healthy child who is growing quickly. They aren’t NFL footballs that come out at exactly the same size.
LOL at the analogy. (I’m a father of three so I *know* that truth.)
Parents will never admit their kids are fat. The kids then continue this denial into adulthood.
My three month old nephew was wearing one of those shirts yesterday.
He’ll probably be wearing 24 month clothing by the time he turns one.
I celebrated Thanksgiving with a 2 year old yesterday. It was her third Thanksgiving.
Ummmm….
2-year old child…
3rd Thanksgiving…
I’m having some trouble with the math…
The SpaceToddler will be turning 3 next month and Celebrating his 4th Christmas. That’s how it works if you are born right before a holiday. First Christmas=1 week old, second Christmas=age1, etc.
Thanks for that…
I was afraid the OP was talking about the SpaceBaby doing his first Thanksgiving in a pre-natal state.
You know – liquid turkey, direct delivery and all that.
It’s really not that complicated.
Born on Oct 1st.
Thanksgiving #1: 0 years old
Thanksgiving #2: 1 years old
Thanksgiving #3: 2 years old
arrrgh…pointless phil post
yea and only 5 today, slippppin’
Agreed. Was there no thought put into this? Oh wait….
+1
He could have googled better ideas for an article.
Like :
Kardashian Kard a consumer rip-off, claim some lawmakers
CONSUMER FINANCE: U.S. College Students Explore U.K. Options
Consumer Panel Finds Blu-ray Often Little Better Than DVD
Wasn’t too difficult, was it?
My kids were always always wearing larger clothes 3 to 6 months than their age. I could see a very large year old needing 24 months.
It’s a suggestion not a strict timeframe.
::snickers::
International adoption?
If you ever have kids, you’ll realize how meaningless those size tags really are. I
Exactly. The size tags are meaningless. Every size 24 mo. is different and every child is different. My child wore this size at his first thanksgiving and he was by no means fat.
My son needed month clothes by his first Thanksgiving. His half-brother needed 24 month. Both are absolutely enormous – between 97th and 99th percentiles in height and weight
Beyond that, what about immigrants?
It’s just for big kids. We didn’t have a “first” thanksgiving shirt for our 11-month-old, but she would have fit into a 24mo pretty well. (Outgrowing the 18mo clothes already.)
My daugther is 13 months old and has been wearing 18-24 month outfits for a couple months. So if she had been born one month later, she would have been wearing that size for her first Thanksgiving. My daughter is already taller and heavier than each of my 2.5-year-old nieces.
Are you serious?
they took a trip to canada, right after our thanksgiving and went back home to the US past your thanksgiving !
there you go, no turkey for you 1 year old kid !
My 13 month old easily fits 24 month old clothes. He’s 99th percentile for height; 50th percentile for weight.
If a child was born last December 1-2009-like my friend’s baby was and was 2 ounces shy of 11 pounds, she could not wear newborn and went immediately into 6-9 months sizing because the sizes have nothing to do with actual age but with perceived size. So this year at almost a year old, she is larger than most babies in general. And it’s her first Thanksgiving. BTW-mom is 6’2″ and dad is 6’6″. So why shouldn’t she get to weat this jammie like a lot of others? It is her first!
Or maybe the child was just a newborn for their first Thanksgiving, like a few people at my company.
There are newborns working for your company?
Or maybe it is the only size that fits the baby. I had to buy that thing in 18 months for my 6 month old.
What a worthless article.
It’s the size of the kids.
It’s all over the news, innit? American=obese & stupid?
So yeah… 24 mo for an infant? Happens.
Hmmm… usually doesn’t have to do with obesity at that age, though. Mostly height.
Wow, Consumerist, way to sort of be shocked-but-not and really dismissive of alternative family arrangements, etc. What a crappy post to make, ewh.
Okay, I was invited to a 1st birthday party and the birthday girl’s invitation said: Size 24mos clothes and size 5 shoes. That is one huge baby. I’d put up photos but I don’t want to be that much of an asshole.
Let me guess, Phil doesn’t have kids and has never been around babies much……
It’s astounding, time is fleeting…
Madness takes its toll.
Cause the power you’re supplyin’, it’s electrifying!
Wait, wrong musical.
Woohoo, I made the front page of The Consumerist! Yeah, that’s me that sent these pictures in and I’m going to be a dad on Christmas Eve. So all you poo-pooers out there give me a break with the hating cause I don’t have kids but my wife and I got a good laugh.
My 6 mo old niece is wearing 18 month clothes already (her father’s about 6’7″) so it could be useful
First of all, clothing shrinks when washed. Second, many children can wear size 24 months at about 1 year of age, even if it is a little loose. How is this a story on consumerist? BFD!
I have to agree with all the parents who say the sizes are more or less a guess. My nephew was in six month sizes at three months, my friend has a son who wore eighteen months before he was one and my five month old is still in three month sizes. It is not hard to imagine a baby in twenty four months.
hey, uh..Phill? tell me again how you keep your job at Consumerist? My 5 month old grandaughter wears size 9 months. She’ll be 6 months on Xmas day, and i bought size 12 months for her as gifts. No child ever wears the size that they are in age. Theres a boy in my 10 yr. old’s class whose parents are 6’5 and 6’7, and I’ll bet he wore this his first Thanksgiving. Research, dude, research.
My daughter is 5 months old and wearing 6 mos. clothing, and it’s still a bit too big for her. She’s a preemie and in the 5th percentile. I thought it was odd that she could fit into clothes for her age (she wore 3 mos. size at 3 mos. of age) but apparently most kids are beyond their age-sizes. My friend’s son is 1 year old and he wears a 2T. The kid is built like a football player already…not fat, but very tall and large-framed.
Baby clothes runs small for some reason. A lot of 12 months old babies wear size 24 months.
Obviously you haven’t seen how friggin huge some 1 year olds can be.
I have a little girl I adopted from China, and she was 5 when she had her first Thanksgiving.
I think everyone is getting a little sidetracked, the post isn’t meant to REALLY pose a question, but simply to entertain.
Get a chuckle out of it and move on, people are too negative nowadays.
My “My First Arbor Day” shirt is totally cooler than this shirt.
Believe it or not, there are lots of bigger babies out there who may very well be younger than 2 but wearing a size 24 months.
My kid is on the small side and he even has to wear clothing supposedly for kids much older than him.
I was going to say, 24 months in clothing isn’t an age, it’s an average size of children that age.
My 2 year old tore up the bread stuffing, then ate some chocolate pie, got a sugar rush, and proceeded to tear my brother’s house down!! Good times, good times :^)))
You realize that 24 months is a SIZE not an age when it comes to clothing right?