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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really bad idea, unless you get a specific medical diagnosis.
All the K teachers say all the boys are squirmy.  It's normal.  
It will be embarassing for your son on every birthday[/quote]

We held our April fraternal twins boys back, they were born 6 weeks early.  They were definitely a challenge back in the day - stubborn personalities, kicking teachers, small stature, etc..., and it was the right decision at the time.  They now have the best of both worlds - they play sports with their older cohorts, developed incredible confidence and are leaders in their classrooms, and are still the shortest in their class.  They are in several "gifted" classes in their school and pace their testing with those a year above them.  We spoke with 4 kindergarten teachers before making that decision, and they thought it is usually a good idea to hold back boys.  And no, we didn't breast feed either, so I already know I'll be labeled a bad parent by trolls on this board - just wasn't medically possible.

We had planned ahead and allowed ourselves options.  We put them into a Catholic kindergarten in Fairfax when they were the correct age, where we were able to monitor how they were pacing with their classmates and behaving.  This provided a few options 1)  keep them in catholic school, 2) move them to 1st grade public school, or 3) redo kindergarten at a public school.  After watching their personalities and behavior in Kindergarten for a year, we chose to redo kindergarten at the public school, and for them, there was no stigma attached.  We loved the Catholic school, but we found that the volunteer commitment for Catholic school was too great since we are both practicing attorneys and can't control our work hours to fit the Catholic school model of everybody pitches in.  If they are embarrassed by their age on their birthday every year, they've never let on that it upsets them.  Only issue we foresee is that many of their sports buddies will be going to college a year before them - and they may be more anxious to get to college since some of their good friends will already be there.[/quote]

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