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[quote=Anonymous]I think something a bit different. I guess there might be out there some parents that redshirt for academics and sports advantages. This, in my opinion, is cheating (even if it does not break any law) because your child is better and stronger because older than most/all. Same way as an early October kid running faster and jumping higher than an early August kid that went on time... 10 month at 5 and 6 are a big difference and it’s very possible that 10 months later the August birthday kid would be faster and jump higher than his class mate with an October birthday.
I am redshirting my late August birthday girl, but it has nothing to do with trying to give her an advantage in school. By the time it matters (high school) I doubt 10 months would make a difference. In my experience (different country) the best student in our class was a girl that was 10 months you get than me and that skipped a year. She always got the best grades! The worst student was one that never studied and repeated a year in high school so was 1 year older than everyone (and possibly 2 years older than our best student).
Perhaps what I am guilty of is babying my DD too much. I see her as sentisitive, insecure and victim of the meaner girls in her class... ALWAYS. I think that being a little older will just help her being happier and better adjusted. Another mom would have said:”we’ll... tough luck Lucy... life is difficult, better get used to it now”.  I in the other hand, want to protect my DD from the heart aches I have witnessed over and over. My DD is the sweetest girl you will ever meet. I keep teli g her that she doesn’t need to be friends with everyone and that other kids have the right to not play with her all the time. She will toughen up eventually I hope, but for now, if being a little older will make her social life a little easier (and I believe it will), I will hold her back.
Being “smarter” and running faster was never something I thought about because I agree that if my DD ends up reading better and sooner than a classmate that is 10 months you get is NOT because she is smarter or I am a great parent, but only because she is 10 months older[/quote]

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