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[quote=Anonymous]I have an almost 9 year old daughter with diagnoses of ADHD inattentive and anxiety. She has a late August birthday and is the youngest in her class.  Her teacher says she is well-liked at school and has friends. These friendships are not as close as what I experienced at that age, but I don't know how much covid (and changing schools early in the pandemic) has to do with that or if she is socially immature and actually not very well-liked.

We are relocating next school year, so I am considering holding her back a year. I think I could pitch it to her as necessary due to pandemic learning loss rather than the real reason, which is that I'm concerned she's going to have social difficulties as she gets older. Thus far she has done well at a very low pressure school (there's no homework or grades). The neuropsych found her at or several years ahead of grade level in math skills, and several to many years ahead of grade level in verbal skills, so I do have some concerns holding her back may cause her to be bored.  On the other hand, I know the academic demands will increase and her challenges with executive functioning may mean her intelligence is no longer enough to ensure academic success.

Do anyone have any thoughts/experience with this? I'm particularly interested in parents of girls as the social relationships in adolescence are so much more important and complex than they are for boys.[/quote]

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