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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before you redshirt, just remember that you will have a year of parenting an adult in the future.

So many of my friends who redshirted their boys had huge struggles once they reached 18 and still had another year of HS left.

Lots of "you can't make me, I'm 18" and fighting.  [/quote]

And if you don’t redshirt a late August birthday, you’ll most likely be dropping off a 17 year old, non-adult to college, since many colleges start mid-August. There are downsides to that as well. [/quote]That should say LC writer's workshop.  Lucy Caulkins.

No, they would be turning 18. [/quote]

If move-in day is August 15 and your DC turns 18 on August 31, they will be 17 when you drop them off at college. Yes, they turn 18 quickly but you’re dropping off a kid who is not yet a legal adult. [/quote]

You wouldn’t send your child to college because of the two weeks of being 17? Good Lord![/quote]

What's the rush? [/quote]

What’s the holdup? [/quote]
For me it was that my late August birthday kid cried every single day of kindergarten because she "just wanted to play" and hated all of the seat work in school.  She was sent to the Principal's office daily for minor infractions and started considering herself to be a "bad kid."  Academically she was fine, but she lacked social emotional readiness to succeed in K.  Having been through that year, I wish I'd held her.  It took us years to rebuilt her interest in school and confidence that she's not inherently "bad."

That would be my hold up.  My kid's well being.[/quote]

Yet, you accuse others who put their child through at the appropriate time as rushing. 
Your kid had a problem, most do not. [/quote]
I'm a NP and didn't accuse anyone of rushing.  I was just explaining why someone might hold a kid.

For the record there's nothing wrong with my kid except being young for her grade and immature.  She grew put of all of it.  We could have saved a lot of angst for everyone (her, us, teachers, classmates) by just letting her start when she was a bit older.

Where do you get that most August kids, especially boys, are ready under today's K expectations?  I think the abundance of redshirting weighs against that conclusion.[/quote]

If these kids are a year younger, they aren't less mature than their peers and its not developmentally appropriate for them to be more "mature."[/quote]
My kid was an August 30 birthday with a September 1 cutoff.  She was going to be the oldest or the youngest.  It turns about that she was not ready for the expectations of kindergarten, which was harmful to her and disruptive to her classmates.  Perhaps it's that kindergarten wasn't developmentally appropriate for a kid her age, but I can't change that. Nor could I waive a wand and make her magically more mature. All I could have done was hold her.  She would have done better.[/quote]

K is designed for 5 year olds.  Your child would have been 5 in K.  It's bizarre to say it's not developmentally appropriate.  Expecting kids to be mature at 5 is setting them up for failure as they are 5, not 45.  You are unrealistic on your expectations for a young child.[/quote]
I can tell you that the curriculum at our public school was designed for mature 5 or 6 yos.  In the first week of kindergarten, when she was still 4 yo, she was told to write a personal narrative and to stretch out her letter sounds to make words.  They were supposed to write for 45 minutes every morning as part of PC writer's workshop.  She ended up in the Principal's office on day 3 of kindergarten for dropping her pencil too many times during writing.  She was 4 yo for goodness sakes.[/quote][/quote]
Most if not any of that is believable. I’m sure that how it happened. Sure. [/quote]

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