Reply to Almost 7 year old in kindergarten!!

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Almost 7 year old in kindergarten!!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]
For parents with younger kids, unless your child lives for sports, the age differences tend to disappear as the children get older. Academically my child is top of the class. There are some social differences between the youngest and older kids, but they're less obvious in a school setting (although I think more obvious at things like school dances).[/quote]

Disagree.  I know a couple of people who regret sending their kids young--the comment:  "Nobody told me about high school!"

Another kid I know was a fish out of water in high school.  Very smart, good kid--but socially far behind the others--again, the youngest in his class--or at least, I assume so as the birthday was very late September. Preschool teacher and K teacher recommend another year=--but mom was insistent because he was "academically ready".

Each child is different.  If you think your kid is not ready, wait a year--especially if the preschool teacher thinks so, too.  Remember, that is where someone sees him interact with other kids.
[/quote]

He'd probably struggle just the same if he were held back a year.  [/quote]

I wonder about these examples that people post -- I know a child in high school or college who is immature.  If only they'd been redshirted, then they wouldn't be immature.  Wouldn't they still be immature if they were one year older in high school or college?[/quote]

That's a difficult question to answer because it's so individual.

I know when a preschool teacher suggested my quirky, birthday just before cutoff, daughter do another year of preschool before K, I was amused by the answers. It was all social, nothing academic. If I weren't allowed to enter K until I didn't struggle with social interactions, I would still be in preschool as a 40 year old. Some of us lag in social skills. Fortunately, now we know they can be explicitly taught. My daughter will always be quirky, but keeping her with her grade peers makes sure she's in an age-appropriate environment to be learning and practicing those social skills. Explicitly working on social skills has been much more beneficial than holding her out a year and hoping she'd magically pick them up. Sending my daughter on time was the right thing to do for her. Maybe when it comes time for college we'll be concerned, but I doubt it. And if we do, there's always a gap year. So far elementary and middle have gone well, and high school is going well.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics