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[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]

It sounds like you’re on the autism spectrum, which would explain why you were smart enough to skip a grade. However, it would also mean you were too socially isolated for things like being the last to drive bother you so much.[/quote]

I wasn’t socially isolated at all. Quite the opposite. Maybe that’s why I wasn’t bothered.[/quote]

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