Ellemenope - our daughter really does not fit with age mates, being wih age peers was one on the major problems per skip. She's not socially or emotionally her physical age. She's most like children two years older. A lot of the reasons you list not to skip were reason why she was too different from age mates and needed a skip....
That is our case as well. We've always referred to dd as an old soul. She seems more like 16 or so socially (she's 14) and three of the people she counts as her closest friends are between 17-18 and in higher grades than she. Kids in her grade pre-skip did like her and she had friends, but she fits better with older kids and is more like them in many ways than she was with her age peers. FWIW, my dd is HG not PG.
