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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’ll regret it.  Give him the gift of a year. [/quote]

You aren't gifting a year.  You are delaying being an adult and college for a year, which meets your needs, not theirs.  If they are delayed, get them help.  OP is saying her child is on target and there is zero reason to delay.

We caved into the pressure with our September child.  Child ended up skipping a grade early on as it wasn't the right choice.

Parents do it as it's easier for them.  Teachers push it as it's easier on them.

You cannot gift time or maturity.  Holding back does not make them less mature.  It lowers the expectations so your child isn't being compared to kids their own age so they look artificially more mature than they really are.[/quote]

Do you feel the same about gap years? Because that’s often recommended and it also delays adulthood. And no, it doesn’t lower expectations because they are the same. The kids are always within a few months of each other give or take.[/quote]

I've never heard anyone recommend it except for kids who didn't get into the school they want and refuse other schools or rich parents where money is no issue.  There is no gap year in our home.  You either go to college or you get a job and support yourself.

When my kids struggle, we get them the help they need if we cannot do it ourselves.

There are huge age differences in HS given kids are in mixed classes so holding a child back just furthers that.

You are having them lose a year of being an adult.  You will die the same age either way so you cannot gift time.  [/quote]

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