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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child with a mid September birthday started kindergarten at 4 last year. She had a wonderful experience both socially and academically. I'm so glad I did not redshirt her. Have some confidence in your kids, people. [/quote]

My kid with an August birthday honestly struggled a bit in kindergarten due to maturity. But you know what, it was okay. We supported her, the teacher supported her, the school worked with her. A few years on, she's doing great.

Someone has to be the youngest. For my kid, it's helped her learn that she could do hard things, that it's okay to struggle with something new. She learned to be diligent and not get too down if something takes a bit longer to master. It can be hard to watch your kid go through something hard, but it's actually essential to their development as people. Why would you deprive a developmentally normal and otherwise perfectly healthy child the opportunity for that growth just to spare them the difficulty of "being the youngest"?[/quote]

There are other ways this can go — we have a kid who is the youngest in the whole grade at school who is a constant problem behaviorally. But that’s when the school should step in. Ours shuffles him to a new class every time he has absolutely exhausted one of the teachers, but it seems like it would be better for him — and every other student who is being disrupted by his behavior, frankly, if the school would just hold him back. He is smart but not behaviorally where the others are. [/quote]

Is your child’s behavior just immature or are there other issues at play? Because just holding them back might not solve the behavior issues.[/quote]

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