Reply to Would you avoid an August birthday if possible?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Would you avoid an August birthday if possible?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m doing a frozen embryo transfer, so we can choose the date.

On the one hand, I have been waiting so long and we don’t know if it will work, so I’m inclined to transfer as soon as possible (Nov).

On the other hand, an August birthday means that I am “holding them back” for school.

You had better believe that I would never send a child 2 weeks from the cut-off!

Should I just transfer in December and avoid the controversy? [/quote]

Depends on your age.  Generally, I agree August birthdays are not the greatest.  September is a very popular month to be born in so I would wait and transfer in December.[/quote]

My kid was born in September and I sent him on time. Everything worked out fine. I never even strangled any of the smug redshirting parents I met IRL who yammered on about The Gift of Time even after they knew we hadn't held him back. [/quote]

Haha. I have an August birthday who went on time and I actually think one advantage to having a kid with this birthday is that it forces you to figure out how to deal with some of the natural inequities of parenting pretty early. It also teaches you to ignore the well-meaning (and sometimes not well-meaning) advice of people who don't know your kid or your family situation and are prone to making declarations about redshirting or what it means to be ready for K or whatever based on very little first hand understanding of the challenge.

Though the fact that OP is already thinking about this is a sign that maybe she should just try to avoid it. I had an August kid with absolutely no idea this was an issue (first and only) and so wandered into the debate over redshirting totally cold which was abrupt but ultimately beneficial because I wasn't in my head about it. I felt my way through and made the right choice for my kid because I was very focused on my kid and not on doing what I was "supposed" to do.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics