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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is a spring birthday at a private school and in K, 1st and 2nd she struggled in the fall because she was constantly being held to a standard set by a group of children who were 12-14 months older than her. She also got frustrated with the pace of her learning and her ability to do certain things on the playground and in a school, grade-based sport.

It wasn’t fair but lots of things aren’t. Like a PP, I reminded her that some of those girls she compared herself to and that teachers compared her to were walking and eating solid food when she hadn’t been been born. At the time she knew a lot of babies and toddlers so that was a really vivid comparison for her. The difference is less now in later elementary grades, although those girls are accelerating the social drama and nonsense. It makes more of a difference when kids have lived 20% longer than their “peers” but that difference is smaller every year.

We did outside gifted testing with a psychologist not to get into a gifted program, but to truly understand where she stood against her peers, since school-based comparisons weren’t helpful because of the broad age spread. WISC and other tests compare kids within 6 months of each other and it was helpful in calming our concerns about if DD was truly behind.[/quote]

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