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[quote=Anonymous]All three of my kids are summer birthdays. My two girls are late summer and my son is earlier summer. They all went when they turned 5 and I have no regrets.

My dd2 sounds kind of like your son. She did not know her sounds and letters when it was time to decide. But I knew she was a very smart kid anyway. Just wasn't interested yet. I consulted with one of the kindergarten teachers at our school. She pointed out that we could try it and if we figure out after a few weeks or months that it was a bad idea, we could pull her. This made all the difference and I felt better about enrolling her. She is now in HS and has always been a straight A student. I can't imagine how bored and unchallenged she would be if we had waited.

With dd1, we sent her because we didn't know it was even an option not to. Lol. Since she was our first, we just thought that if you make the cut off, you go to school. We didn't know that red shirting was a thing. We also didn't know that most kids already know their letters and sounds going into K. We thought that's what K was for. Her preschool followed the high scope curriculum, so academics wasn't their focus either. She caught up quickly and is also a very good student.

DS is extremely smart but not the most motivated student. Even being the youngest, I think he is bored. He puts in just enough effort to keep straight As, but he doesn't usually do his best. He is in 6th grade and this has always been a concern of mine. Someday school will become more challenging for him and I fear that he won't know how to work hard and ask for help when needed. These issues would have been even worse if he was the oldest in his class.

Most teachers will tell you to wait because they love having older kids in class. It generally improves their test scores.

All that said, my kids do seem a little behind socially. They are shy kids anyway, but they do seem a year behind their peers socially. Especially my girls. In some ways, that's not a bad thing. It postpones dating and 'going out' until they are further into HS.

PS - DD2's preschool teacher told me to get Leapfrog Letter Factory to teach her letters and sounds and promised that it would help her learn them in no time. I bought the DVD and after watching it a couple of times, she had learned all of them. It is a miracle worker. Now they are available on youtube. [/quote]

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