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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have end of August child whose birthday is 3 days before cut-off and we kept him back, in part because he was still napping at age 4 and still having accidents then, too. It was definitely the right decision. He is in middle school and that extra year  helped him tremendously with maturity (willingness to sit down and do homework for example). He is also under 50% percentile for size in his age, and so he has never been the largest in the class, nor the smallest. He is also not that far ahead in terms of birthday - there have always been kids with September and October birthdays in his class, but really, one of his best friends since first grade is 11 months younger than him, so the age range has never been an issue.

It's hard to know what to do at this age, but trust your instincts.[/quote]

My kid is the counter-factual to this one: the description sounds similar (still napping, still having accidents, not able to sit still for long periods of time) but we sent him to K on time.  I'm only 18 months in but have had a lot of regrets.  We had to keep reminding teachers who imply there may be a diagnosis in his future that he's the youngest in the class and maybe they should give him some time to mature.  Especially given all the kids who did red-shirt, he's over a year younger than several kids in his class.  It's getting better mid-first grade and maybe I'll be happy about our decision by high school, but right now it just feels like we made things unnecessarily difficult for him.  [/quote]

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