[waitinginnj]

My daughter will turn 6 a month after kindergarten starts in the fall. She misses the cut-off by one day. I had a lot of people pushing me to get around the system. I decided not to. She will be so much more ready for kindergarten next year.

She developed socially, but scholastically in a way that should make the kindergarten transition so much nicer. She is reading, knows numbers better, counts etc.

The downsides for her have been the extra things. The gymanstics classes are based upon school grade. The class was too babyish for her by mid year. I actually pulled her out for the spring. The camps are based on school grades are too babyish for her. Thankfully, one by me is pretty flexible, and she is going to hip hop class that she technically misses the cut off from by one day.

I think that I will continue to be somewhat challenged to match up the age/school/social aspects.

My little one came home at 2. I decided to not fight the system and let her be a baby a bit longer. I very much took into consideration that she will drive first, be older when she starts college etc. I saw the high school and college years as age being an advantage.

It isn't easy to decide though.