Both my sons were born in August. My eldest is now 6 in Y2 and my youngest is 3 and will start reception Sept 2018, less than a month after his 4th birthday.
When we were thinking about DS1 starting school my instincts were telling me he wasn't ready and we should apply to have him start reception the following year. But his nursery teachers told me he would be fine.
We should have applied to keep him back.
He is very bright (our opinion and that of his teacher's - I glow with pride) but he has struggled to do things he was physically and developmentally not ready for (it turns out he has dyspraxia which explains some of the challenge.)
Our DS2 is more confident than his older brother (so is less likely to be as anxious as his brother was/is at school) but his talking is delayed (he has speech and language therapy and a SEN plan at nursery) and he seems younger than his brother seemed at the same age. Also, he was born a month early so would have started school in 2019 if born when expected.
So I have filled out the application form to have DS2 start reception in 2019 instead of 2018.
But how will it effect his older brother when he sees his little brother finding school easier than he did?
I do feel bad that we didn't delay school for DS1 and don't want to make it worse for him.
I want to make sure I don't repeat the mistake with DS2 but either way there is an unfairness.
Because the advice I got from DS1's nursery teachers in the end was wrong I don't know who to get advice from.
Have you experienced anything similar?
What would you do?
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Summer born children. Should have held DS1 back, do I hold DS2 back?
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Orsimarlimum · 24/01/2018 14:10
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