Anonymous
Post 07/20/2015 16:09     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
5, 5. DS, KG in FCPS
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2015 13:14     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
5 and a few days. He has had a little trouble socially (nothing awful, people like him fine but few close friends), but I think he would have had that problem regardless. He is a really nerdy kid who likes to talk about math a lot. That would have been a problem whether he started school at 5 or 6.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2015 13:02     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine was 22. I wasn't sure whether to red shirt him but each year he seemed a little too immature and I was afraid the other kids would sense his immaturity. He is clearly smarter than all the other kids but he's small and I didn't want his first school experience to be a bad one. I hope nobody has a problem with a 23 year old 1st grader.


+1 Same with toilet training. We waited until he was 16 and showed all the "signs of readiness".


16 is such a terrible age for it! Right in the middle of teenage defiance. I say, if it's not done by 9 or 10, just wait until they're 18.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2015 13:01     Subject: Re:What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
5.5
Spring baby, so no where near the cutoff, and never considered redshirting at all, despite the fact that he's tiny (5% for both height and weight). He's right where he should be academically. K year was great - fingers crossed for first!
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2015 11:12     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
Fall birthday - 5y 10mo
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2015 15:10     Subject: Re:What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
DD turned 5 at the end of August and started school that September. So 5 and a few days.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2015 15:09     Subject: Re:What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:Five and ten months - he is an October baby. We had no choice - the private school we chose has a strict Septemeber 1st cut off - no exceptions.


+1 Same here and DS was a Sept 7th baby! They refused to make an exception for seven days!
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2015 13:04     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
4, turned 5 at the end of December. (Catholic school)
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2015 20:12     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
#1 started at age 4 (9/29 birthday)
#2 started at 5 year 1 month (July birthday)


Thankful that #3 won't start until almost 6 (October birthday)
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2015 18:44     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
DD - 4, turned 5 in Nov
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2015 08:04     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
5y 3m
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2015 00:30     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
5 yrs 10 months (redshirted, many years later still glad for the decision)
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2015 23:52     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
Anonymous wrote:6 - it sucks that he cannot progress at school as he should.


What exactly does that mean?
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2015 23:32     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
5 years 4 months and 5 years 3 months
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2015 23:05     Subject: What age was you child when they started kindergarten?
6 - it sucks that he cannot progress at school as he should.