Glad you said something, onthegomom. I've been feeling the same way. My dd was always homeschooled, but we always said if we put her in school we'd hold her back a year. She was reading well by her 4th birthday and chapter books by kindergarten. Still, her birthday is a couple weeks before the school cut-off. At that time, she still just seemed so much younger than the older 5 year olds. We didn't want her to be the last of her friends to hit puberty or get her driver's license. The way we figured it, she was already going to need special gifted services, even if we put her in the grade for which she was technically was old enough.
