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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just made the cutoff and would have been one of the youngest in my grade, so my parents held me back a year. My bff just missed the cutoff and her parents enrolled her a year early. We have a 13 month age difference, but we were supposed to be 2 grades apart. I’ve thanked God many times that we ended up together. We both turned out great.

If you start your son early, you’ll pay for one less year of private kindergarten, have him living at home with you for one less year, and he will enter the workforce one year earlier. He will drive later than a lot of his friends. He’ll be more likely to go through puberty later than classmates.

If you stick to the cutoff, he’ll live under your roof longer. He’ll be among the first of his friends to drive. He may have facial hair before his classmates.

If he’s really strong academically, he’ll be bored in school no matter what you do. If he’s immature, it may be better to stick to the cutoff. If he’s very mature, it may be better to send him early.

The odds are that he’ll probably be just fine either way.[/quote]

There is such a wide range of when kids hit puberty.  My son was young for his year but hit puberty early.  Thank goodness we did not wait.  He would have been shaving in 6th grade.  He was totally  fine for sports and social..in fact his best firend for all the years was an October b-day and almost a full year  older.[/quote]

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