and I am an honest person, am I expected to pay child admission for him that day or is he still free? I guess I could go the day before and avoid the moral issue, but I wanted to see how other people felt about this.

Basically, I want to take him for his birthday but want to wait to get his very first AP when ours expire the following month. ;)

If you go on his third birthday, then you should technically buy him a child's admission. If you were to go the day before his 3rd birthday, he would still be free.

Also your child is very aware it is his 3rd birthday. If you state he's two in his hearing, I bet he'd correct you :)

Basically, I want to take him for his birthday but want to wait to get his very first AP when ours expire the following month. ;)

One thing to consider: Our APs expire in different months and I like it. I don't have to cough up the money for all five APs at one time. They're not all that spread out anymore - one in June, one July, two August, one October, but it does help!

Adrienne

If you want to go for free, for him, go the day before.
I agree with Adrienne, it is nice to have the AP expirations spread out a bit. Not so tough to cough up all that money at once.

If you want to get technical about it, as long as you purchase the ticket and take him in the gates before the exact time he was born on his birthday, he is still 2. Maybe that is enough justification to rule out the moral dilema.

Hopefully he was a night baby!

If you want to get technical about it, as long as you purchase the ticket and take him in the gates before the exact time he was born on his birthday, he is still 2.

Ummm, actually, no. Doesn't work that way with anything that's based on age as far as I'm aware.

If you want to get technical about it, as long as you purchase the ticket and take him in the gates before the exact time he was born on his birthday, he is still 2. Maybe that is enough justification to rule out the moral dilema.

Hopefully he was a night baby!i'm with you - i took my "night baby" in for free a few hours before she was actually 3 years old. :geek: it wasn't till our next visit 6 weeks later in Ocotober i got her an AP.

If you want to get technical about it, as long as you purchase the ticket and take him in the gates before the exact time he was born on his birthday, he is still 2. Maybe that is enough justification to rule out the moral dilema.

Hopefully he was a night baby!

So when your kid goes to get his drivers license at the age of 16 or whatever the current age is, make sure you tell him/her to wait until the exact time of the birth before they can get their license. When your child turns 21 same rules must apply for drinking...yeah right. :rolleyes:

I am not saying that it is how everybody thinks about a birthday, but if you are trying to justify going on the actual birthday, it is a technically correct. Trust me, I know people who waited until 12:01 am on their birthday to get into a bar, because it was their birhtday on their license, but were not born until later that night.

You could justify it either way actually. So it all depends on how you want to think about it.

i'm with you - i took my "night baby" in for free a few hours before she was actually 3 years old. :geek: it wasn't till our next visit 6 weeks later in Ocotober i got her an AP.

I wouldn't quibble with someone who did this, but I think it should be called what it is - she shouldn't have gotten in for free just because she hadn't hit the actual third year of the time of her birth. She should have had paid admission media.

People can bend and circumvent rules all they want, but I think it's ridiculous to claim that you're not doing it when you are.

I defer to the musical Into the Woods...

"Careful the things you say, Children will listen.
Careful the things you do, Children will see."

I don't want to teach my children that it's ok to pick and choose which rules you follow or to justify your way around a rule with nit-picking.

The groundwork we lay when they're preschoolers and grade-schoolers will come back to benefit us - or haunt us - when they're teenagers. I've seen it happen.

It's a few bucks. If the money is too much to pay, then don't go to Disneyland on their third birthday. I especially like the drivers license and drinking age analogies. Life's full of tough decisions. We're modeling ethics and morality daily to our children. It's our job and our privilege.

Adrienne