The hard thing about this blog is figuring out what to write. It seems like when I have lots of things happening in my life that would be fun/interesting to blog about I never have time to blog about them. Then, when things settle down I feel like it’s too late to write about them and I don’t have anything interesting to say (or I just can’t remember). Truthfully it probably doesn’t matter because I think there’s only two people who ever read this blog anyway.
So, the big decision around here lately has been whether or not to send Liam to Kindergarten next year when he will be the youngest in his grade or wait a year and let him be the oldest in his grade. Honestly I’ve been wondering about this decision for a really long time…years even. I’m happy to say that I’ve made a decision now. He will be waiting a year for Kindergarten and he will go to another year of preschool. Now, the problem is finding a preschool that has openings still. For some reason most of the ones I had in mind for him started registering for next year clear back in January! I was SO uncertain on what was best for him that I didn’t sign him up. (Actually, I was pretty sure I wanted him to wait back then, but my husband wanted to send him and I didn’t know how to reconcile our differing opinions) As of now he’s on two waiting lists and I’m crossing my fingers he gets into one of them!
Do you have kids that have birthdays close to the cut off? Did you send them young or let them be older? How did you decide?
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Liam will be in kindergarten with Mason then! That will be fun that they will be in the same grade because then we can go on field trips, etc together.
My oldest is Sept 1st. It's still a couple years to kindergarten and I have no idea what to do. We are hoping as she gets closer the decision will be obvious. As of now, I am thinking the next year when she'll be the oldest. The kids that struggle and get held back are usually summer (youngest) birthdays. (this doesn't mean ALL will struggle, it's that the majority that do are late summer birthdays. I don't want her to struggle or be so much younger. idk.
As you know, Ethan and Liam share the same birthday and we have to make the same decision. I've pretty much been thinking about it since he was born and wish he had just been born 6 weeks later so we wouldn't have to even make that decision. I'm kind of jealous that you already know what you are doing. We are still going back and forth. In some ways I think Ethan is ready, but in other ways, I think holding off a year would really benefit him. We decided to go ahead and have him tested (we have to register him to have him tested) and then go from there.
Based on the comments, there are four of us that read your blog. My brothers were both near the cut off and they both ended up doing 8th grade twice because my parents didn't think they were ready for high school. It was hard, but they both agreed that it was the best. I think you're smart to hold him back. I'm going to try an at-home preschool, but I don't know if I'm disciplined enough for that.
Kristin--I guess I was off. At least my readership is double what I thought it was! ;) Liam won't do school-type work for me for anything! Otherwise I'd be tempted to try to teach him at home if I needed to.
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