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[quote=Anonymous]My late August baby is now is middle school so there’s been enough time to see the bigger picture, but still recent enough that I remember ALL these thoughts.

We sent her on time - she celebrated her 5th birthday on the first day of kindergarten. There were definite maturity issues in prek, K, and even 1st but she wasn’t the only one. I noticed that the kids who were 10-11 months older than her could sit still longer and were less rambunctious, but they were also the outliers. She was more the norm of her cohort than the older kids. Covid happened in 1st grade and by the time everything returned to normal, she was in 3rd grade and all the kids were weird and different in their own way after a year of distant learning. Since then, I haven’t really noticed any difference between her and the “older” kids. She’s doing really well in middle school. She’s doing advanced math and has made Honor Roll. She’s not very athletic, but she comes by that naturally with two non-athletic parents. She has good friends and is doing well socially. I can’t imagine that she could be doing much better at life if we had started school later.

A hard lesson I’ve learned as a parent is that we can’t micromanage our kids lives and experiences. We make decisions for them with the information we have and we don’t always get it right. And then life happens anyway and decisions are taken away from us. Kids get hurt or injured. They get a bad teacher. They get cut from a sports team. It’s all part of learning to adapt, develop stronger character and persevere. [/quote]

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