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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is an April birthday, too. I wouldn’t think of redshirting him. Even though he is on the younger side for his class, there are plenty of younger kids and many right around his age. Also, at this point, it would be more like holding him back and would likely crush his self esteem. Please do not do this.[/quote]

My daughter has a late April birthday, like April 29. I can empathize with you OP. With all of the redshirting (where we are 99% of kids who are born June 1 onwards are redshirted, girls and boys) a late April birthday is basically the equivalent of being born in late July in the 80s or 90s. It feels like everyone except for you and me is in an arms race to have the oldest child. Anyway, my daughter’s best friend from preschool is a boy and he was born a week earlier and his parents held him back a year. He’s really smart and very calm. He’s small (I guess, he doesn’t look particularly small to me but that is what his mom said; fwiw his parents are small - his dad is like 5’8) and on the quiet side and even though he got into a great private school they talked to the school about their concerns and the school said that he could do a “soft” application the following year and spend another year in preschool. So it happens, OP. I would say don’t do it and that all of this redshirting is bananas and if a child is smart and has a good work ethic they will do fine if they are one of the youngest students or one of the oldest students but a lot of literature suggests being an older student is better. Of course there are many anecdotes that prove exceptions to this rule are not uncommon but we all know that we shouldn’t consider ourselves or our kids exceptions. Statistically that doesn’t work out well. So just do what you want! [/quote]

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