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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most "summer birthday boys"?  Summer birthdays range from part of June through part of September. Who would redshirt a June or July kid?[/quote]
Plenty.  I've seen parents redshirt May birthday boys.[/quote]

My nephew, born in May, was held back.  He'd been late to start preschool because he resisted potty training and was generally immature emotionally so it made sense at the time.  He's now a HS freshman and doing well.

My DS, born late June, went on time and at the time I had no concerns at all -- he was already reading well, doing math beyond a 1st grade level, extremely social, very confident.  But our schools' ridiculous expectations for young children in school still made things very difficult for him.  He almost immediately came to hate school and I heard all the time about immaturity, impulse control, etc.  Finally, by 4th grade he caught up and classroom behavior was no longer a problem.  But he still really dislikes school.  I had a number of discussions over the years with the school counselor and second-guessed our decision to send him on but her take was that if we'd held him back he'd still be getting in trouble but out of boredom rather than immaturity and that is harder to deal with.[/quote]

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