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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP, my boys are 19 months apart (one year in school) and this is a great reflection

[quote]They do tend to “crowd” each other and probably lack space for quiet reflection and focus away from the other, which can have impacts on school performance — not necessarily bad, but you can sort of see how they’d be “better off” w/o the other to deal with. I get it.[/quote]

We should have had them be two years apart in school, but the second one was advanced for a four year old. That's not a brag. It was totally due to learning things at the same time as his brother. So he learned to read, write, basic math and science early all because they were together. More a a Montessori style learning.  It made it easier for us as parents and for our daycare & preschool to keep them together. They absolutely needed more physical, emotional and mental space to grow on their own. We did our best, learning as we went. [/quote]

Agree.  Same situation for us, down to the very advanced younger child and Montessori.  We made a move from Montessori to public around 6th grade and I had the younger child (fall birthday) go into their correct age cohort which put them two yrs apart in school and it is so much better now that they are both are in high school. One year apart in the high school years is rough.[/quote]

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