Thanks for the feedback. My DD5 has been with the same kids since she was 2. She has grown apart from them recently, and wants to skip K, but I am expecting a last minute panic when her old friends go to one classroom and she goes to another.
Then, DD9 knows the kids who will be in 5th with her next year, and will even see her old friends part of the day in Hebrew, but the following year she will be a total sixth grader. I do wonder if, again, there will be moments of lonliness when she'll miss her old friends.
I am having a really hard time with this. I wished all day yesterday that I just had normal kids. I don't know what to say to the other parents, I don't know if DD5 can handle a full day program (it is super long, 8:20 - 3:45), I don't know if she will get the nurturing that she still needs. Ugh. I feel almost guilty, like I've done something wrong, but then I read all of those acceleration articles and am reminded that this really is the right decision.
