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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By 7th grade being the youngest and smallest really sucks and erodes at your confidence as you get picked last in PE, always make the B team for sports and hit puberty way later than most of the other boys in your grade. Not to mention maturity as it comes to social dynamics of being less mature.

You may think your kid is a genius now and should head over to K so as to not be ‘bored’ in PK but really, it’s PK and it’s all fleeting.

you need to play the long game here. Any academic advanced traits in reading or math even out by 4-5th grade so rushing the process really gets you nothing.

Your kid will thank you. The social aspect of not being the baby in the grade is so key once he gets older.

Plus you get a whole extra year with him before college which is hard to imagine right now but which you will be SOO grateful for as a mama once your kids start to grow up. The extra year is such a gift…

No regrets from this mama whose September birthday kid is the  seventh  oldest in his grade (lots of August birthdays)[/quote]

Some kids are just not athletic so size for them will not make any difference.  The sport my child does goes by age not grade so to hold back for sports makes no sense nor to base it on a 13 year old.

Mine has no issue being the youngest.  [/quote]

It doesn't matter if sports are by age group. A kid born in August or September (depending on the school cutoff) is at a disadvantage in sports too. If you look at many sports, the players on top youth teams tend to be born in January/February/March. I have kids involved in soccer, and up until around U15-16, the vast majority of kids on the top teams are the oldest, and most B-team kids are fall birthdays. If a kid has other developmental factors that make you question whether to start on time, redshirting can sometimes align your kid with peers so that they are in the same grade as kids on their team. Not all young and small kids need to stay back, but if you have a very small boy who is immature and has trouble focusing, that extra year can help with confidence, especially in middle school.

I didn't redshirt my 2nd percentile in size and weight son with ADHD and a late August birthday. He is now a senior in high school. He is doing fine, but he is still a bit more immature than his peers. Middle school was terrible for him, especially due to his size. He would have been one of the smallest even if we had redshirted him, but I'll always wonder whether he would have been a more confident student if we had held him back.

Another bad thing about August birthdays is that most kids in the grade will have their drivers' licenses before your kid does. That pretty much rules out any driving themselves to activities or jobs until the summer after junior year (at least in Maryland).

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