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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel for you OP! My daughter was born a few months before her cousin and it's hard not to make comparisons. But it's really hard to tell how kids will progress at the tender age of 5, so I wouldn't put too much stock into the comparisons.

Your sister is making a good decision for her daughter, so please support her. I'm surprised that somewhere your sister holding her daughter back a year isn't making you reconsider your decision to put your daughter into school early. I would definitely question my decision if I were in your place. Also, as other posters have noted, your kids may actually be better friends because they are not in the same grade. I was very good friends with a cousin who was a grade above me and never even thought to compare myself to her. It's actually crazy for me to think about now.

I have a summer birthday and repeated kindergarten, because I could barely read and my parents were worried. My husband also has a summer birthday and was held back in Pre-K, because he didn't understand analogies (can you tell he went to NCRC?). I went to Amherst and he went to Harvard. We probably would have been fine going early, but I can say unequivocally that repeating/being the oldest in our grades didn't hurt. 
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I wonder how many times it needs to be said on this thread that OP didn’t send her child early ... she was sent on time[/quote]

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