The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

What is it about telling children's age by the month?

I can kind of understand, perhaps, the history of it, but I don't quite get why after a child is one year old, they are still counted by their month rather than year.

For example, this news bit discusses a 23 month old who took his mom's van for a spin.

Why do people refer to a near 2 year old as 23 months old? Why not just say a two year old or a child who's almost 2 or something like that?

It probably has something to do with the past where a child wasn't really considered to be a human until it reached two years old, or that there was still a chance of a child dying before it reached two years old, but come on, this is the 21st century.

Does that happen in our modern society that frequently to have to still call a child by its month age? Ya, it still happens in the third world and all that, but not in the first world like it used to.

I think it's ridiculous calling kids by their month age, so I always say, they are 1 and a half or whatever age they are.

I guess we should just be glad that we don't have to go by our month age throughout our whole lives. What would I be by now, like 371 months old?