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Reply to "Long term affects - good or bad - of holding back from kindergarten"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I don't want my kid to be the youngest. Fine by me if it's ok with you that your kid's the youngest. Someone has to be the youngest after all. [/quote] What, specifically, is bad about being the youngest? I'm curious because I was the youngest (by up to 3 months) my entire 1-12 school career, and I don't remember ever thinking of it as an awful fate. (I'm also the youngest child in the family -- was that an awful fate too?)[/quote] I'm not saying this applies to every child, but there is a lot of research out there suggesting that even through high school, children at the younger end of the grade level are at a measurable academic disadvantage. Again, this is at the statistical/macro level and may or may not bear on your decision about your child, but it is certainly food for thought. I believe Malcolm Gladwell addressed this in the book Outliers, although I have read it elsewhere since. [/quote]
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