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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is fine. I know people that skipped a grade and have moved along in life just fine. If there's not a problem, don't stress and create one in your head.[/quote]

This. It sounds like you're going out looking for problems when there isn't one.

I skipped a grade in early elementary when I switched schools. Once at my new school, it was my new normal and no one ever thought twice about it. I think these days parents make SOOOO much more out skipping grades than the kids do. What if what if what if what if, on and on...

Kids don't hit 13 years on the exact dot and BOOM go through puberty. It varies widely like PPs have said. Some are early, some are late, and the span is over years, not weeks. Your kid will probably blend right into the middle of that somewhere.

Through high school, I was friends with people in the grades above and below me. I was never bean counting how many months different we were. All the issues I had as a teenager - insecurity, boy drama, etc - would have been the exact same as if I had been in a lower grade. When a kid struggles, I think this is just an easy thing for adults to point at and blame. "I should have redshirted him!" "I shouldn't have let her skip a grade!" But it's all speculation in the end. Chances are it's not the age of the child, it's the circumstances - a mean friend, a bad boyfriend, a disliked teacher. 
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