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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a rising 3rd grade girl who just turned 8, but I’m posting here because I am hoping to understand and anticipate some of the challenges of being the youngest in a grade with far older girls. Has anyone experienced this?

She is at a private k-8 and there are occasional cohorts with big age spans, but her grade’s is especially pronounced due to pandemic repeats and redshirts. In the past, these cohorts have had ugly social problems in 6th/7th grade and there are occasionally gender imbalances or small grades that reflect girls leaving the school to escape the situation. I’d love to avoid that.

Girls in her grade are on average 6 months older than her but 25% of them are 18-22 months older. [b]The older girls all happen to have middle school siblings. [/b]In 3rd grade, my daughter will have classmates turning 10. The current downsides of this that I’ve noticed are that my daughter is always a little behind socially in the fall, and that [b]some of her classmates are trying on tween behavior, language, and social stuff. [/b]It was rough to parent a 2nd grader through what felt like middle school social dynamics, and I’m not looking forward to more of that this year. Some of the girls are also going through puberty at a developmentally appropriate but atypical-for-grade age, which has its own complications.

Do any parents of middle school or high school girls have advice for me for successfully parenting a girl who is young for her grade cohort?

I’m being specific to girls because I feel like the impact of redshirting on boy cohorts has been discussed here to death, but I haven’t found the same kind of advice for parents of girls.[/quote]

Fwiw, them having older siblings would cause this on its own. But yes, I would buckle up for a rough time socially [/quote]

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