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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can see the advantages of this, but wow, I can't imagine having enough money that I would sign up for another year of childcare at $2k a month, minimum. That's $24k!![/quote]

If your main reason for doing this is to not start college at 17, suggest you send kid to pre-k on time and then plan for a gap year - which you can fund with the $$ saved from that extra year of daycare. [/quote]

This is what we are doing for our August birthday kid. And what has happened is that she has turned out to be super academic and had no problems socially, and it is honestly hard to imagine her a year behind her current path. I know that's not every kid and I get it's hard to know at the PK level (in PK3 I was convinced we'd have to try and find a way to hold her back because she was so much smaller and shyer than the other kids). But four years later I'm so glad we started on time. I think she would have been bored to tears doing PK4 as a 5 year old and I honestly don't know what they would have done with her in K-2nd because she was already in the most advanced reading and math groups.

But it was useful for us mentally to just assume she'd do a gap year so we didn't have to feel like we were pushing her too fast. I actually did a gap year as well, not because I was young for my age but because I wasn't sure about future plans and just wanted some time to think about it before starting college. It was a really valuable experience and also took the pressure off college -- I had already lived on my own away from my parents, traveled, worked a regular job (for part of the year), fed myself, etc. It made college feel like no big deal. [/quote]

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