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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Are you and your kids the exception or the rule? Are you average? Are your kids? Do you think most kids can do what you and your kids have done? A professional athlete could say how they could compete with kids several years older than them without any issue but the average to slightly above average person could not. Professional athletes are the exceptions not the rule. [/quote]

Good questions?  I don't think we are outliers.  My experience and instincts tell me humans need stimulation and challenge to perform and excel.  In a variety of disciplines (physical and intellectual) my observation is when youth challenge their minds and bodies (playing with "smarter" and "bigger" kids) the results can be spectacular.  A suspicion, just like 8 year-old soccer, lacrosse, tennis, basketball players that grew up competing with kids older and bigger, the classroom brings out some of the same type of results.  My sister had 4 brothers and she played soccer, football, tennis and the like with us growing up.  She essentially played on all the boys teams as a youth.  No wonder she was a three sport superstar athlete on girls teams in a top NE boarding school and later Ivy  She graduated from high school at 16.  Therefore, her young age was not a liability.

I have seen this phenomena with many girls playing with boys (alledgedly bigger, faster and stronger) early in their athletic careers.  The mind responds the same way as the body to callibrated increasing challenge and stimulation and I suspect for many youngsters reading, writing, computing, manipulating numbers and violin strings in challenging settings gains similar results.

It makes sense from a purely physiologic and biochemical perspective.

But I have not seen any robust research regarding redshirting and thus I follow my inclinations based on experience.
 
 
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