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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same we know everyone’s but we socialize with most of the families. 
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Uh, huh. Right. There's literally 900 kids at Lafayette. There's 700 kids at Murch. These schools are big. You don't know the ages of everyone. And the desire to explain every little thing by whether someone's birthday is four months before someone else's is just strange. [/quote]

People won't know for all 700 kids. But they will know for the 100 kids in their child's grade. [/quote]

They for sure can’t know that unless they are being inappropriate.

I had kids invited to literally every birthday party in elementary, we socialized widely, and I could not have known the birthdays of 100 of them the way anti-redshirters have them memorized. You can only do that if you are inappropriately memorizing and studying kids. [/quote]

I think that’s a privilege of not having to worry about it because you have an older kid and things come easier- school, making teams, etc [/quote]

PP here. No, you are wrong. My kids are either mid-pack or young for grade. [/quote]

But is your area one that it has any impact? Mine is.

I actually like the red shirted kids better for social for my kid. It’s made him more mature but we have basketball cuts and only 25% of the kids make it, and he’s the youngest one and 15 months younger than some of the kids so situations like that can be annoying, especially when he’s on the bubble/line for sports. Very good for his age but hard to compete with kids who are a year older and very good for their age. [/quote]

PP here. Yes, there are plenty of redshirted kids. My kids are friends with some of them.

I maintain that what you are doing — tracking birthdays, gossiping about kids, comparing sports rosters, etc. — is highly inappropriate behavior not at all justified by what seems to clearly be your untreated anxiety disorder. My kids are young for grade or mid-pack and I have never done anything like that, nor felt a need to. The entire idea of doing that is repulsive.

I think in all seriousness you need to work on yourself. What you are doing is not healthy, normal behavior, and you are modeling that obsession for your kids. [/quote]

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