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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP quoted --- I don't think I'll be worrying about my DS struggling with sports as a middle schooler since he's pretty bad at sports right now.  Unlikely that he'll be on a sports team 7 years from now.  AS for social issues -- DS seems to get along just fine.  In every class there are kids across the social spectrum and he seems to find friends who fit him.  I'm not worried about that.

Could there be challenges -- sure.  EVERY kid has his/her issues.  I'm sure we did the right thing, even though I had serious reservations when we were approaching kindergarten.  There's no guarantee that DS would have no challenges/problems if we held him back.  I believe he's capable.  He believes he's capable. That goes a long way.

Maturity is not always related to bday... I have another child with a Dec. bday and that child is not very mature -- tends to get along with the kids who have summer-Sept. bdays (i.e. the youngest in the class).  There was never a consideration to hold our DEC. bday child back -- but that child will probably always be an outlier in the social scene whereas July bday child fits right in the pack.   Dec. bday would have fit better socially if we held him/her back. We can't engineer a perfect solution to all social interactions.   We just have to manage the issues as they come.
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