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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I always tell parents is to set up an appt. at your local middle school and talk to the counselor(s) there.  How are those younger kids doing as puberty hits?

August is on the line.  But, with twins, unless genetics say and show that the kids are both going to be big, and advanced scholastically, there is zero reason to push ahead.

From your updates -- it would seem to be a no brainer to say: hold back.  Again, what happens between first and second grade academically is of little importance.  What happens in middle school and high school -- much bigger deal.

Now -- one proviso -- we held our daughter back for 2 years of kindergarten.  That decision set off a little trend of kids from the group to also hold back (obviously they were already considering it -- we just like to say we must have started it.  Still it is easier if more than one.)  Anyway, one of the group went ahead to 1st grade and then repeated that with our group.  One other girl coming from a neighboring district decided to repeat 2nd grade.  In discussion things in retrospect -- we all think that it would have been better to just say, in advance, we are going to repeat 1st grade rather than kindergarten.  Repeating first grade would have focused a bit more on reading in particular than kindergarten which was largely socialization.

Of that group of 6 heldback girls -- 3 played college soccer for 4 years, 1 is an RN now, 2 are in med school, 1 in law school, mine is in grad school now, and 1 just got her CPA.  So far so good.

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How is that useful?  Most teachers push parents to hold kids back and its not about the individual child.  Its impossible to guess where a child may be 5-10 years from now.  We held our kid back and it was a huge huge mistake.  He acted much younger being with younger kids and the academics were painfully slow and he wasn't challenged or happy because it was so so.  He skipped a grade and is doing well.  Socially it may not be better holding back.  Kid are who they are and its a false assumption to think a year back will be better.  [/quote]

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