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[quote=Anonymous]I was redshirted (end of July birthday), because my parents did not want me to be the youngest in my grade (my mother was always the youngest in her grade and disliked it). I went to ivies, played sports in college, and am successful by all markers. That said, I had to play a year up in travel soccer (the cut-off was two days after my birthday) and got a lot of questions about "why I was old" in K-12 and college. I was a sensitive kid and the perceived judgement from other kids really bothered me. My husband has a beginning of July birthday and he also went to ivies and is very successful (his kindergarten teacher recommended that he be held back a year). I actually purposefully tried to get pregnant so that our child would not have a summer birthday and could avoid being either the youngest/oldest in her grade.[/quote]
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