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

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]

I agree that education isn't a race. You know how you sometimes hear about a 12-or-13-year-old heading off to college? It's the parents of [i]those[/i] kids who view education as a race, not the parents of the kids starting college a few weeks shy of their 18th birthdays.[/quote]

So, if I have a late August vs. late September child/birthday, what exactly is the difference between a month?  You may be robbing them of a year of adulthood by forcing them to be kids an extra year when they are 18/adults.[/quote]

You have only a few years of childhood, it's precious and fleeting, but decades of being an adult. Who needs another year of working, bills, taxes, and stress? Most people given the choice would likely prefer another year of being a carefree child.[/quote]

Speak for yourself, but I felt embarrassed about still being in "childhood" when most of my peers had moved on to "adulthood".[/quote]

The vast majority of kids don't turn out like you. [/quote]

That's the very reason for my embarrassment. I would be just fine with how I've turned out had I not been part of a[b] group that generally does extremely well. I'd be in good company. But as it is, I am in a group in which I am one of the only people, if not the only person, to not excel. I haven't lived up to the expectations of the group I'm in.[/b][/quote]

Wait. You say that other redshirted kids generally excel, and that you are an exception and in fact one of the only people in that group not to be happy with your lot. So then you come here to warn people against redshirting?

Assuming you are sincere, the only way this could be helpful to anyone is if you were to explicitly tell us what qualities you think set you apart from the other redshirted kids who by your words did “extremely well”.

I started out at 4 and it was absolutely a mistake. I can clearly articulate why: I was socially immature, although academically advanced, and my social problems were deeply damaging to my mental health and education in a way that reverberated for years. I would recommend that those with a child who is socially immature and young for grade redshirt.

What would you recommend, given both your poor experience, and your observation that most redshirted kids do extremely well? What set you apart? How can we identify specifically which kids do better starting earlier vs later? Now [i]that[/i] would be a useful discussion.[/quote]

What I'm saying is that it's far more embarrassing to do poorly when you're in a group that generally does well than it is to do poorly when you're in a group that generally does poorly.[/quote]

How did redshirting make you do poorly? Isn't the lesson with redshirting that the outcome is pretty much the same either way?  But for redshirting you were going to be great? Come on.[/quote]

Like the natural law anti-redshirter, logic isn't going to work here. This person needs help beyond DCUM.[/quote]

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