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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Meh I'd rather my kid enter adulthood mature, ready for the next step, and with confidence than launching them too soon. I'll take my chances with the gift of time rather than roll the dice and find out that it would be an uphill battle and struggle by forcing them before they were ready because of an arbitrary cutoff. You only get one chance to get it right. I know people who regret sending the kids on time when they were young and immature, I don't know anyone who regrets redshirting. 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]

Same here. I bet if you looked at everyone who ever dropped out of college or took longer than 4 years to graduate, you'd see that the vast majority started before they were 18.[/quote]

This is pure conjecture to serve your made-up narrative. My kid is starting college at 17 and does not want a gap year. Same with several friends who just turned 18. A friend's son went to college at 17, is a few years out and is now a successful business owner. On the other hand, we know several redshirted kids who are taking gap years and one is going to a technical school (a very good one).

I worried about my kid being behind in 3rd grade, and his teacher said she had no idea he was younger. He also had friends, two who were BFFs for awhile, who were 18 months older than him -- no biggie for the parents worrying about that. Some redshirted kids definitely have an advantage in HS sports. There's a sophomore who is huge because he should be a junior. But, he's bigger than both parents (how would you know this would happen at 5), and really is not a smart guy (so I can see why he was held back). OP, just do what feels best and stop obsessing. You cannot predict how it will turn out. We never talked about redshirting either way with my 17 yo, but in junior high he said out of the blue, "thanks for believing I was smart enough to start on time." Kids become aware of ages when there are birthday parties. Could a kid say the opposite that they were grateful to have the time. Probably. We just can't predict the future when our kids are 4/5. [/quote]

DCUMs antiredshirters are so weird. It's fascinating.[/quote]

Redshirted kids are just so dumb. That's why people are so up in arms about these kids  :roll: [/quote]

You do realize that the decision to redshirt is up to the parents, not their child. I know that if it had been up to me, I would've started school on time. It's really not fair to label a child as "dumb" for a decision they had no control over. If I had been raised by your parents, I probably wouldn't have been redshirted, and if you had been raised by my parents, you probably [i]would[/i] have been redshirted. Would you feel it was fair of me to call you "dumb" in that case? [/quote]

If you are responding to me, the "dumb" poster I'm being sarcastic, hence the eye roll. The anti-redshirters simultaneously think redshirted kids are dumb and slow yet their parents are cheating, giving them an unfair advantage, and gaming the system. Which makes me wonder why they are so threatened by kids they think so little of? If they honestly believed that, why wouldn't they have more empathy and compassion for the kids and parents? It's clear they are just being dishonest.[/quote]

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