When should boys start school?
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I don't think it is wise to make blanket statements. All kids are different.
We started our 3 around two-years-old because we have athletically and academically superior genes. They are all professional athletes and doctors now at the ages of 11, 13, and 15. Life is pretty easy for us.
Have a 9-month old grandson that feeds himself and changes his own diapers. We're expecting quite a bit from this young man.
That's very fair. I know the option was available for me to start a year earlier so I kinda threw it in there but you are probably right.
I just don’t see the down side of waiting. If you wait and they are ahead and you decide to accelerate them academically that is fine. If they aren’t ready and they fall behind, it’s tough to catch up if you pushed them early.
In the experiences of when I went to school and my kids having and last still going. Very few times have a I seen a kid who is born august or later be academically, socially, and emotionally (all three together) similar to their class. Usually at least one behind, not all, but more often than not in my experiences.
In the experiences of when I went to school and my kids having and last still going. Very few times have a I seen a kid who is born august or later be academically, socially, and emotionally (all three together) similar to their class. Usually at least one behind, not all, but more often than not in my experiences.
Indeed they were. And I hate grocery shopping so nobody in their right mind would get in line behind my stacked cart. We were also regulars at the pediatric ENT doctor with 8 sets of ear tubes on 5 kids, and the most daunting, the orthodontist.
We were in West Des Moines when they wanted to grade accelerate the older two. We weren’t wild about that, especially the oldest who was small for his age. We moved to a smaller district where we could just accelerate all the boys in math, which was what they really needed, but not anything else.
My daughter is a mid-August birthday and our experience mirrored what you're saying. 6th grade was an adjustment for her socially, but she came out of it stronger for it. She started branching out in 7th and by 8th grade, she had really figured things out.
I hated the middle school years, especially 6th and 7th grades. Kids are all about being loud during those years. Driving the carpool to soccer practice was a special kind of hell.
I was August birthday. Most of the kids that were behind in age in my experience were less off socially. Of course nothing is black and white. Just my opinion and my parents were both teachers.
I was July so I was the youngest in my grade and then I grew up in the time where kids went to AK. I went to kindergarten in Chicago where there is no AK so when I moved here there were kids in my grade that were like 19 or 20 months older than me.
I wasn’t aware of when kids in my class had birthdays, let alone generalize their social acceptance by their relative age.
im a september birthday and so i was one of the older ones for my grade. i thought it was sweet being 18 basically my whole senior year.
also turning 21 at the start of my junior year of college during football was cherry on top.
also turning 21 at the start of my junior year of college during football was cherry on top.
That was a son #2 quote. He lived in Helser and was whining about 8:00 am Calc III or Dif EQ or something being in Town Engineering instead of Carver. His mother, who lived in Towers and had an 8:00 am Philosophy class in the Meat Lab before CyRide had many routes, found this complaint laughable.
