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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a non-redshirted late September birthday. I started college as a 17 year old.

Parents should make decisions based on what is best for their kids. DS is a late June birthday, we started him on time. He is annoyed that he cannot play many sports with his friends, in the same grade, because they were born in a different year. Academically he is great, he was accepted into AAP even though he is the third youngest kid in his class.

And yes, he knows he is the third youngest, not because we told him but because his classmates discuss when their birthdays are. He also knows the kids who are older because the kids discuss their birthdays and ages. The oldest kid in the class told me, in first grade, that he was in a different Den for Cub Scouts then my DS because he was older so he wanted to be in the older Den. I didn't ask him, he saw me at a Pack meeting and told me. Said kid has also told his classmates what other things he can do, different camps and the like, because he is older then they are. How do I know? My kid came home and said he wanted to do camp X next summer because it sounded cool but he was too young. So yes, some of the kids who are red shirted know about it and seem to care.

I suspect that the youngest/oldest stories fall over a wide range of responses based on the kids personalities and home environment. [/quote]

This is really odd as our cub scouts always went by grade/not age.  Same with most camps.   A few were more age based but all but one were happy to take my child (but I am talking speciality camps) and one said no as they were not getting any younger kids and the average age was 14-15 vs. my child was 9 at the time, which made sense as even if he were a grade older they still may have called and not taken him.  And, worst case, they wait till the next year.  If anything its been nice to get in that extra year of the better/speciality camps as its gone by grade, not age.[/quote]

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