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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m redshirting my July daughter [/quote]

Ditto.  She's 4 and my youngest child and she's not happy about that.   She's always the youngest in the class too and she's more immature.  Another year of childhood seems like a great gift to give her.[/quote]

She isn't less mature.  You are not comparing her to her actual peers and kids a year younger.  You are doing it for her, not you.  You aren't giving her an extra year of childhood.  You are taking away a year of being an adult and forcing them to continue being a child.[/quote]

It's not robbing them of a year of adulthood, it's making sure they are as ready and a prepared as they can be to get the most out of their education. It's not a race.[/quote]

I agree that education isn't a race. You know how you sometimes hear about a 12-or-13-year-old heading off to college? It's the parents of [i]those[/i] kids who view education as a race, not the parents of the kids starting college a few weeks shy of their 18th birthdays.[/quote]

No, the parents who view it a race are the ones who keep harping on the correct age one must be when graduating from high school If it's anything other than 17 then it's "too old". Too old for what? In the example of the 12-13 child prodigies in college, the fact that hardly any of them live up to the hype when they reach adulthood just underscores that maturity rather than chronological age is what matters. It's the tortoise and the hare all over again, slow and steady is the way to go.[/quote]

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