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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do know one thing. It would have been much better to leave her at her old nursery school for one more year and then redshirt her when I put her in the new school. I think she's going to know something's wrong or different this way.[/quote]

PP of an August bday girl who we did redshirt. I wouldn't beat yourself up about leaving the nursery school OP, unless she was at NCRC where some kids move on and some kids stay. If her cohort from nursery school moved on, that would have rattled her confidence too.

What we did and what friends did successfully was to do a jk year at a totally different school from the nursery school or elementary school. It's still not a panecea, it can be hard to enter a group where the kids have all been together for a long time.

I don't know about your DD OP, but mine is young all around - even late to lose teeth for example. In her current school many of the girls have early fall bdays so would have been almost a full year older, as it is she fits in well. Not a huge leader or follower, goes back and forth. Her motor skills are in line with the other kids. Kids who fall really young in the cohort tend to struggle with that. Now that she is a bit older kids spend a lot of time jumping rope, dancing, playing soccer, she is fine, but a year earlier would not have been.

I'd also make sure that she gets lots of play time with her old nursery school friends if possible.

Have you talked to the teachers at all? Is there even one or two other kids in her class/grade who has similar interests?

I think a consultant might give you a different sense of different school personalities but even that can vary so much by the particular grade/class.

Best of luck to you and your little one![/quote]

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