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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's better to be the oldest, but not for any of the reasons you mentioned. My parents have been cut off by my brother for not redshirting him. I have a March birthday, so I was already on the older end by default. My brother, however, has a December birthday, and our parents sent him to Kindergarten when he was 4. He was fine academically, but socially, he suffered greatly. Anytime our parents need help with something, it's all on me because my brother always refuses to help, his reasoning always being something along the lines of, "Why should I care about their needs? They evidently didn't care about my needs when they sent me off to Kindergarten so young."
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I skipped kindergarten, started first grade when I was five, and didn't grow up to be a soft little chud like your brother.[/quote]

It's not that your kids will necessarily resent you if you make them the youngest. It's that they [i]won't[/i] resent you if you make them the oldest.[/quote]

Are people really this neurotic? I’m a summer birthday and I skipped a grade. I graduated HS a month before I turned 17. I had a great time. [/quote]

Math must not be your strong suit.  They may resent you held them back, especially if they did well in school.  I couldn't imagine holding my kid back whose already on the most advanced track.[/quote]

Kids who are ready to go should go, how is there any argument over this?   Kids who are immature for their age and can’t sit still should hold back a year.

There really aren’t advanced tracks this young.  Some kids can read grades ahead or they go to a math school but that’s not school is.  They will blend in the class and if they keep up their advanced work they’ll take advanced classes soon enough.   [/quote]

All kids are immature.  They should not be mature at age 5.  They go to K to learn those things.  And, this is why those play based preschools aren't great as they don't prepare the kids nor do the parents.  We did an academic preschool and it prepared the kids, and one of mine had SN and very delayed.  We started at a play based and I could see the older ones not prepared and switched.

Holding back a smart kid makes less sense, as they can thrive academically.  [/quote]

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