Looking back, I don't think I would have tried to start him in K a year earlier. He needed that year of maturation.
This is what I am trying to figure out. I mean, five year olds are hardly models of maturity - so how do you know if your four year old is mature enough for kindergarten? She will miss the cut off by 4 months, so I sort of wonder how much less mature could she possibly be than the other kids... but dd3 is my first, so I don't really know ND kindergartner behavior. She goes to an extended day preschool now (8-2) so kindergarten would only be an hour longer... she was in daycare before that - so she is used to being away from home and away from mom. I look at the kindergartners and they just look so big -- but she has until next September to grow. I suppose my main concern would be that she is hardly an athlete... (what can I say, she takes after her parents) - so she can not hula a hula hoop, nor can she jump rope. Again, she does have almost a whole year, and I am not sure if other kids could do those things -- what if she is always the last kid picked for the team? That would be horrible. (Although, we could have the same problem if we kept her with her class)
