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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just don’t be overly weird about your kid being young for grade, like a lot of DCUM posters are, and to be frank, you sound like you are heading towards. It’s just not that big a deal. Don’t brag about your kid being the youngest. Don’t teach them that it makes them somehow special. Don’t be invested in your kid’s identity as the youngest. Don’t drop their birthday into as many total unrelated conversations as you can, especially when they are standing right next to you. Don’t make a big deal about how much older some of their classmates are. Just please, if you possibly can, please be normal and not supremely weird about age.

Signed,
The youngest in the class[/quote]

I think a lot of parents need to hear this.
Thank you.

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Yeah, there are a lot of posters here who definitely need to hear this, but they won’t. Their egos are too tied up in their children being the youngest. So they’ll continue to awkwardly bring up their child’s age in every conceivable situation, even it’s totally unrelated to the conversation at hand. They will not see the polite bored stares from the other parents who have to pretend to listen (but their kid will see those stares). They also won’t see their kid wishing they could be literally anywhere else in the world while they talk once again about their kid’s birthday. It’s too bad, but they just won’t hear the advice. 
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This is hilarious, because it’s actually the redshirt parents who are using their kids for attention. “Look! My Larlo is the star player on a team he’s too old for! Isn’t he great?”[/quote]

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