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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kindergarten is not that hard --- I mean they REALLY start at square 1 and any kid who has gone to pre-school is probably bored for the first 3 mos.  I don't understand the fear that kindergarten today is so challenging.
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[b]This is a sign that you don't know what you are talking about[/b].  In kindergarten kids have to focus on and join in on classroom activities.  There's much more structure, more sitting and paying attention.  It isn't so much the writing and such, its that in kindergarten the kids learn how to be students in school.  Sure for many kids -- especially girls -- this is not problem.  For my DS, [b]even after we held him back (August bday) he struggled with these skills[/b].[/quote]

Actually, I think it's a sign that your child has issues unrelated to his age.  It's not the demands of kindergarten that were so far beyond his (or another younger kid's) abilities.  I DO know about kindergarten and there isn't THAT much sitting still.  If your child can't sit and focus for 15 min. -- then there is an issue -- but not necessarily one that will be "fixed" by waiting.  The vast majority of kids born in July, Aug., Sept. CAN handle the demands of kindergarten and I think your experience with your child's attention (which is not typical) is causing you to see kindergarten as so hard.  I think you are doing a disservice to a lot of parents by suggesting that kindergarten is something big and scary.  Kindergarten teachers are prepared to deal with 5 year olds and all their 5-year old immaturity.
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Its hard for some.  When my DS did start kindergarten it was a challenge but one that he met, because he was ready.  I never said kindergarten is big and scary -- seriously, you can disagree without misstating what I wrote.  You don't speak for kindergarten teachers, thats for sure.  They would be the first to want my child to wait a year.  And if you were the parent of another child in the class, you would be the second.  Because you would be on these boards complaining about all the attention being diverted to the child who shouldn't be there.[/quote]

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