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[quote=Anonymous]I'm personally glad I sent my late-July boy on time. He's in K now. He's the youngest in the class because there just happens to be no August kids. He's doing great and loves kindergarten. Academics-wise, he's in the middle in reading and at the top at math. Recently he was upset  because another kid in class told him she was reading at level 14, and he was only at level 8 (the numbers are printed on the backs of the books they bring home each weekend for practice). This other child has an early September birthday, and I was able to tell him that he's doing just fine, making progress just as he should, and that his classmate is a full 10 months older than him and has likely been reading for a longer than him. I feel like it's not a bad position for a little kid to be in--to be striving to perform as well as slightly older peers.

And socially it's way better to be among slightly older kids--at least for my son. He's gotten much more mature, better at self-regulation, and we haven't had any of the reports of rambunctious behavior/not listening to adults that he had in pre-K.  If he'd done pre-K again, I imagine there might have been more of that, not less, as he would have been the oldest, a "ringleader" and also perhaps a bit bored. [/quote]

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