Reading around here, it would seem that even if your child is very young, sending them to school a few months later is A Bad Thing.
DD is shy and struggling to integrate at preschool, and only has a few more months to get herself together enough to go to Big School, where she will be the youngest in the school. She is a tall child, and is often treated as being older than she is as a result of this, and that doesn't help things. I think a few more months at preschool will help her no end, but already the school are using a bit of emotional blackmail saying if I send her in January she will make no friends as all the friendships will already have been formed by the September starters. That attitude is a bit of a kick in the teeth for me as the thing I worry about with DD is her failure to cope with larger groups of children and shy and retiring nature. My mother told me when I was 5 we moved house and I started a different school, and was surrounded by kids wanting to talk to the new girl, so she feels that what the school have said is a load of BS.
Has anyone here held their child back until January against the school's advice? how did it go? Did it work well, or was it a disaster? A quick search on MN shows the most common response to parents worried about their late-born child is to tell them to send them to school in the September and they'll be fine. My birthday is in August too, and I recall hating school with a passion, yet I was bright at school and have a very exclusive job now. DD is bright academically - it is the emotional side I am worried about.
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Backinthebox · 10/02/2011 22:34
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