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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to understand that you are setting your poor son up to go through puberty a full year and a half ahead of his "peers".

I thin what you have done to your son is truly ridiculous and without merit or reason.  [/quote]

NP here and I don't understand your math.  Are you suggesting there are no kids with fall/winter birthdays in any given class?  Even if all the kids in a given class were summer birthdays (that would be incredible indeed), a May birthday held back would be 12 - 14 months older than them, not 18 months.

I did hold back my end of August baby because of maturity issues.  He is exactly 12 months older than the youngest child in class (who happens to be his best friend), but only a few weeks to 3 months older than a good third of the class.  If you looked at a photo of his class you would not pick him out as the oldest.  There are at least 4 kids who are much bigger than him. He's kind of in the middle as far as size.  And fwiw, my DH went through puberty later than most of his peers, and my brothers were also slow.  
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