When a Child has Birthday, Do They Get out of School?

[Guest Xapis10]

What do you do for your kids' birthdays? Is it a normal school day for them? A partial day? Do they get off of school? I have a summer birthday, so I'm prone to want birthdays to be free. Is that spoiling?

[Mommyfaithe]

No school for anyone on birthdays.

[dbmamaz]

I couldnt figure this out until i thought more carefully - ds 9's birthday is Sept 6th and we are usually still on break. dd 16s birthday is april 2nd and i usually try to make that a break. we school year round with quarterly 2-week (or sometimes 3 lol) breaks approx xmas/new years, end of march/early april, late june, early sept

[Cosmos]

One child, birthday in late June. Easy decision!

[Lolly]

We always took birthdays off. Whole family. Well, except dh. He had to go to work. Come high school, things have changed. We now work on through birthdays. :crying:

[Mommy22alyns]

The girls' birthdays are 3 days apart, so we take a week off then. I think Sylvia's birthday is actually on a Sunday this year, but we'll take that previous week off.

[happypamama]

We take off from school completely on each child's birthday. Maybe on mine too. DH's only if he can have the day off work to do something fun (which is not likely). We take off on our family's birthday (aka mine and DH's wedding anniversary). We do school year round so that we can take days like those off. :)

[Mom28kds]

I try to do field trips to make the day more fun. If that doesn't work then I take them out for lunch or something special. We still do school though.

[redsquirrel]

I think it is different for everyone. Personally, it would never occur to me to give a student a day off from school just because of a birthday. Then again, it wouldn't occur to me to take a day off from work on my birthday. Birthdays just aren't that big a deal in my family.

[myfunnybunch]

We have a normal school day, with a birthday breakfast and a family birthday celebration after dinner. We also do school on my birthday. :)

 

But I don't think it's spoiling to let them have the day off. My two older boys have birthdays during and closely following the holiday season, so we're already taking a lot of time off. If we had early fall or spring birthdays, we might take them off. (My youngest always gets his birthday off, as he was born on Christmas Day.)

 

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[Momofeat]

We have a normal school day, with a birthday breakfast and a family birthday celebration after dinner. We also do school on my birthday. :)

 

But I don't think it's spoiling to let them have the day off. My two older boys have birthdays during and closely following the holiday season, so we're already taking a lot of time off. If we had early fall or spring birthdays, we might take them off. (My youngest always gets his birthday off, as he was born on Christmas Day.)

 

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This is pretty much what we do too. My dd(10) had a b-day yesterday and begged for the day off. We just started back last week, and Friday is always our hardest-hitting school day because it's our only day completely at home. So no, she couldn't have it off--and I felt like scum. :-/

[TracyP]

We just go ahead with a normal school day on b-days. My kids would consider it punishment, not a reward, to not have school.

[lexi]

We always have a special breakfast that day. Sometimes we take a field trip or we might make it an art project day. So we don't do regular school stuff but what we do could still be considered school.

[Clear Creek]

No school on birthdays, including mine. :D

[TKDmom]

We still do school on birthdays. If we are having an afternoon party, we might make it a short day in order to get everything ready.

 

My dh's family made a big deal about birthdays, with breakfast in bed and such, but I've never been into making birthdays a big,day-long celebration. They are just a good excuse for me to buy presents for my kids and and eat cake after dinner. :D

[texasmama]

We take the whole day off on the kids' birthdays and let the birthday person choose what we do as a family. It is a lot of fun. :)

[Joshin]

DS12's birthday is on 9/6, same as my dad's. We take the day off because we do a joint family outing with my dad on that day. It's the beginning of our school year, so we usually start the day after their birthday.

 

DS7 and I are a week apart on our April birthdays, so we schedule our spring break for that week. DH's birthday lands in summer, so he is very opposed to school on birthdays!

[Jilly]

We take off. I don't want to do school on my birthday, and I am sure the kids feel the same.

[prairiegirl]

Birthdays are a day off from school. We have two birthdays in Jan.--two days apart-so we only have a three day week that week.

[thebacabunch]

Yep! We take birthdays off. I add a little more of each subject the rest of the days so we don't fall behind.

[Dmmetler]

DD was born on Thanksgiving, so her actual birthday is usually when we've got relatives visiting anyway.

[paceofnature]

No school for anyone on birthdays.

:iagree:

[Farrar]

One of the benefits of homeschooling. :) We do usually have activities like co-op or classes and attend them though.

[Samiam]

No school. DH takes the day off work. It's the ONE day a year where it's completely about that person. We always try to make it an adventure day, ie go out and do something special. School will be there the next day.

[boscopup]

We school on birthdays, unless I'm needing to clean house to prepare for family visiting.

[Plink]

We have school on birthdays. We also work year round. I'm realizing that I might be a nominee for meanest-mom-ever award.

[Dory]

We have a half day on kids birthdays around here and we start the day with a special breakfast and end it with a supper of their choice and cake and ice cream with family and friends. For adults. We might get a gift in the evening but otherwise nothing is different on our birthdays than it is any other day of the year.

I have tried to do a little more for my dh on his birthday as he comes from a family where birthdays were a big deal. I prefer to pretend that mine doesn't exist though.

[Tita Gidge]

No bookwork on birthdays, whether student's or teacher's :) but most years we do take a school-y field trip of the birthday celebrant's choosing (museum, zoo, movie, etc.)

 

This is true only for birthdays which fall during the school week; birthdays over weekends only see a transfer of these benefits if it's my birthday LOL.

[Elfknitter.#]

We tend to have our breaks from school around birthdays, so no school here.

[crazyforlatin]

We have school on birthdays. We also work year round. I'm realizing that I might be a nominee for meanest-mom-ever award.

 

 

I kind of have to due to work and migraines. We usually do light school work each day year-round to account for days when I'm not able to teach.

[athena1277]

No school for my kids, but that's because one has a birthday in the summer and the other has a birthday during Christmas break.

[happyhomemaker]

We still have school. The child gets to pick what's for dinner that night, and we usually visit dh at work for lunch that day. We always officially celebrate birthdays on the closest Saturday to the birthday so we just do little things on the actual day.

[DaffodilDreams]

Here, yes. We make a big deal out of birthdays. Holiday for all of us!

[momto2Cs]

I have two kids, and both get the day off when it's their birthday or their sibling's birthday. Unfortunately, I still have to work but I would take the day off too.

 

Same here. I do have a couple of floating holidays each year, so I try to take those for the kids' birthdays, and then we all have the day ff!

[cin]

Both the girls have summer birthdays, so it's usually not an issue. BUT, my birthday is January, so we DO take that day off! :thumbup1:

[Mom2OandE]

We do no school unless there is something special. On ds last bday they had presentations for tech classes but nothing after that.

[ccolopy]

We do school on birthdays and save any fun birthday activities for the evening when DH is home, or the weekend when friends can join us.

[Lolosoli]

We take birthdays off as well as snow days and beautiful days in the spring.

[kdownie]

We take the day off, unless it is co-op day, which is a fun day anyway. I like the idea of taking off school for mom's birthday too!

[Mommy_of_4]

We take a fun day :)

[Holly]

Fun day here! DH often has meetings in the evening, so we go out for lunch and have cake/ice cream/presents in the afternoon. We'd probably get some school done in the mornings, but I'm usually frantically baking a cake.

[marbel]

We don't take the day off, necessarily. But I don't think it's spoiling a child to take it off if a family prefers to do it that way! It's just an individual choice. We always end up having a lot of "no-school" days due to sickness, doctor appointments, and other distractions so taking a full day off for a birthday just doesn't always work. We have a festive breakfast and dinner, and that seems to be fine for us.

[shinyhappypeople]

Yes, of course. Also pet birthdays. And Halloween (and day after). And the first beautiful day of Spring. :)

[shinyhappypeople]

dp

[elegantlion]

We school 6 weeks 1 week off. I try to make sure our break is on his birthday. If it's on the weekend, we take the week aftewards off. Ds shares a birthday with my mother and they are best buddies. We always get together on that day, the time together is worth more what he learn that day anyway.

[sewingmama]

Birthdays are holidays here -I cross them out on the calendar along with public holidays. We usually go on a field trip for that day. My kids love birthdays - they get so excited over them that the lack of concentration would mean we get no work done anyway.

[Hoot]

When I scheduled our year I planned for taking off school on both DS's birthday as well as mine.

[MissKNG]

Porbably depends on my mood! Not a full school day but enough to be able to "count" it as school - filled with crafts, projects, baking and read alouds.

[lllll]

Yes.

[Rivka]

Alex's birthday is in mid-April, which is a perfect time for spring break, so she gets a WEEK off school. I didn't think about the precedent I was setting for Colin's February birthday...