Tell me about redshirting your late summer/fall birthday son before Kindergarten

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Redshirted my July bday son now in seventh grade. I haven’t regretted it once! One of our best parenting decisions made based on the teacher’s recommendations.

Hahahhahahahaaahhah! “Best decision” and “teacher recommendation”. On repeat! Hahahhahahahahahah!

Such a bizarre response. You have parents with many years having passed since the decision was made and with time to see how it worked out. If you regret your redshirting decision, or decision not to redshirt, then share. But don’t presume to know what was best for other people’s kids.

[Anonymous]

Terrible precedent that teacher’s recommend based on month and not for valid reason and that parents don’t see through this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Redshirted my July bday son now in seventh grade. I haven’t regretted it once! One of our best parenting decisions made based on the teacher’s recommendations.

Hahahhahahahaaahhah! “Best decision” and “teacher recommendation”. On repeat! Hahahhahahahahahah!

Such a bizarre response. You have parents with many years having passed since the decision was made and with time to see how it worked out. If you regret your redshirting decision, or decision not to redshirt, then share. But don’t presume to know what was best for other people’s kids.

Pot calling kettle. You shouldn’t presume either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Terrible precedent that teacher’s recommend based on month and not for valid reason and that parents don’t see through this.

This is a private school forum. Find a better school if you think so little of a teacher’s judgment that he or she only uses a birth month for evaluation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Redshirted my July bday son now in seventh grade. I haven’t regretted it once! One of our best parenting decisions made based on the teacher’s recommendations.

Hahahhahahahaaahhah! “Best decision” and “teacher recommendation”. On repeat! Hahahhahahahahahah!

Such a bizarre response. You have parents with many years having passed since the decision was made and with time to see how it worked out. If you regret your redshirting decision, or decision not to redshirt, then share. But don’t presume to know what was best for other people’s kids.

Pot calling kettle. You shouldn’t presume either.

Again, bizarre. This is about my kid on a thread asking for parents to respond about their experiences. Please do so for YOUR child without second guessing the responses of others about their own.
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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Redshirted my July bday son now in seventh grade. I haven’t regretted it once! One of our best parenting decisions made based on the teacher’s recommendations.

Hahahhahahahaaahhah! “Best decision” and “teacher recommendation”. On repeat! Hahahhahahahahahah!

Such a bizarre response. You have parents with many years having passed since the decision was made and with time to see how it worked out. If you regret your redshirting decision, or decision not to redshirt, then share. But don’t presume to know what was best for other people’s kids.

I have shared. I regretted it. Kid skipped K. to make up for it. Years later, even with the developmental delays, holding back made no sense. Instead we addressed the issue so the child could be successful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did with a June birthday. We just knew he wasn’t ready. Best decision ever. Turns out he has some leaning disabilities. Had we sent him on time he would have struggled even more than he is now.

Here’s that “best decision ever” that earlier post correctly stated every red-shirter just automatically says.

The best decision would have been to get that child evaluated early on and get them help.

You have no idea what was the best decision for my kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did with a June birthday. We just knew he wasn’t ready. Best decision ever. Turns out he has some leaning disabilities. Had we sent him on time he would have struggled even more than he is now.

Here’s that “best decision ever” that earlier post correctly stated every red-shirter just automatically says.

The best decision would have been to get that child evaluated early on and get them help.

There's no way to help a child mature more quickly. There are no drills for social maturity. Time is the only thing that helps.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did with a June birthday. We just knew he wasn’t ready. Best decision ever. Turns out he has some leaning disabilities. Had we sent him on time he would have struggled even more than he is now.

Here’s that “best decision ever” that earlier post correctly stated every red-shirter just automatically says.

The best decision would have been to get that child evaluated early on and get them help.

You have no idea what was the best decision for my kid.

Neither do you evidently when you used a later start as a “cure” for a disability.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Redshirted my July bday son now in seventh grade. I haven’t regretted it once! One of our best parenting decisions made based on the teacher’s recommendations.

Hahahhahahahaaahhah! “Best decision” and “teacher recommendation”. On repeat! Hahahhahahahahahah!

Such a bizarre response. You have parents with many years having passed since the decision was made and with time to see how it worked out. If you regret your redshirting decision, or decision not to redshirt, then share. But don’t presume to know what was best for other people’s kids.

Pot calling kettle. You shouldn’t presume either.

Again, bizarre. This is about my kid on a thread asking for parents to respond about their experiences. Please do so for YOUR child without second guessing the responses of others about their own.
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Basically you want only responces that agree with you for validation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible precedent that teacher’s recommend based on month and not for valid reason and that parents don’t see through this.

This is a private school forum. Find a better school if you think so little of a teacher’s judgment that he or she only uses a birth month for evaluation.

Are the teachers quantifying with a neuro psych analysis? You’re saying that they don’t know child date of birth? Yet they recommend based on that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did with a June birthday. We just knew he wasn’t ready. Best decision ever. Turns out he has some leaning disabilities. Had we sent him on time he would have struggled even more than he is now.

Here’s that “best decision ever” that earlier post correctly stated every red-shirter just automatically says.

The best decision would have been to get that child evaluated early on and get them help.

There's no way to help a child mature more quickly. There are no drills for social maturity. Time is the only thing that helps.

Maturity is subjective. You are clearly having to high expectations for a 4-5 year old if you expect them to be mature. And, yes, you should get them fully assessed and into social skills classes and other things if you think they are behind. Holding back does not fix maturity. It puts them with a younger peer group and then you based their peer group/maturity off a younger expectation vs. what their actual age/development should be. That's not fixing the problem. That's masking it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did with a June birthday. We just knew he wasn’t ready. Best decision ever. Turns out he has some leaning disabilities. Had we sent him on time he would have struggled even more than he is now.

Here’s that “best decision ever” that earlier post correctly stated every red-shirter just automatically says.

The best decision would have been to get that child evaluated early on and get them help.

You have no idea what was the best decision for my kid.

That was what was best with you if you just ignored the issues and delayed it a year. If your child had learning disabilities, you get them tested and help asap and not wait.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did with a June birthday. We just knew he wasn’t ready. Best decision ever. Turns out he has some leaning disabilities. Had we sent him on time he would have struggled even more than he is now.

Here’s that “best decision ever” that earlier post correctly stated every red-shirter just automatically says.

The best decision would have been to get that child evaluated early on and get them help.

There's no way to help a child mature more quickly. There are no drills for social maturity. Time is the only thing that helps.

Maturity is subjective. You are clearly having to high expectations for a 4-5 year old if you expect them to be mature. And, yes, you should get them fully assessed and into social skills classes and other things if you think they are behind. Holding back does not fix maturity. It puts them with a younger peer group and then you based their peer group/maturity off a younger expectation vs. what their actual age/development should be. That's not fixing the problem. That's masking it.

100%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't do it. You want your kid to be 19 at graduation? Since you asked.

As usual DCUM anti-redshirters cannot do math. It’s like clockwork.

Well, some are 19 at graduation, as April/May birthdays are also red-shirted sometimes. The flip side is you have a 17 year old going to college. There are a lot of other factors like personality, aptitude, size, which are not necessarily tied to age.

OP literally stated when her child was born. There is no way for her child to be 19 at graduation. It is a mathematical impossibility. But DCUM anti-redshirters can’t do simple math, so they don’t understand that.

Red-shirters are far more incompetent in more than “anti red-shirters.” Hence the “need” to red-shirt.

I guess we can add English coherency to the list of skills that DCUM anti-redshirters lack.

In any event, this exact thread is an example of the remarkably consistent mathematical illiteracy displayed by DCUM anti-redshirters. I actually find it enormously entertaining how consistently they demonstrate their lack of simple math skills.

Ironically, if your children had the skills you immaturely make fun of posters, you wouldn’t need to redshirt.

Some facts:

I didn’t redshirt.

You don’t understand how to properly use the word “ironically.”

DCUM anti-redshirt posters consistently show an inability to do basic math. It is really rather remarkable for people who brag as much as they do.